Closer Quote by Clifford Geertz Download Open image “We're getting closer to our nature.” — Clifford Geertz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Closer Getting Nature Our
More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer. — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison. — Bjork Copy Share Image
The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence . — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
“Everything on this earth belongs to God and therefore the more your dedication draws you closer to him, the more you will draw closer… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
“Every second and every minute of the clock, we are getting closer and closer to our various destinations.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank.… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
