Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism. ”

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. ”

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. ”

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ”

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. ”

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. ”

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. ”

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. ”

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. ”

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. ”