The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Paul Hawken

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
Paul Hawken

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
Paul Hawken

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
Paul Hawken

First feelings are always the most natural.
Louis XIV

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
William Christopher Handy

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
Naguib Mahfouz

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
Cole Younger

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
Ivan Pavlov

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.
Tim McGraw

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.
Charlize Theron

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Friedrich Schiller

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

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
Norman MacCaig

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Giorgio Vasari

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Enya

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
Richard Gere

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
Roger Waters

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
Christy Turlington