Quotes About Development

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

Nature does not make leaps.

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare