Quotes About Wean

As the previous chapter showed, mobile communities of foragers have good reasons to limit population growth. But if they settle down, those limits to population growth can be relaxed. Babies do not need to be carried so much; grain-based diets (particularly if foods are cooked) make it possible to wean children earlier; birth intervals will shorten; and females will reach puberty earlier.

More than developing confidence in the reliability of new energy technologies, and even more of a challenge than the admittedly complex task of designing and constructing an infrastructure that will allow consumer access to them, what stands in the way of our apparent will to wean ourselves from conventional energy sources is the reluctance to wean ourselves from old ways of thinking.

When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character.

Trials wean us from this world and prompt us to look to the happiness of the next world.

Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

As part of the GOP old guard, I joined a 12 step program to wean myself from politics as usual within the Party.