"Nature conserves, prefers novelty." — Terence McKenna

"Nature conserves, prefers novelty."

— Terence McKenna

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202 Quotes by Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna has 202 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the…
Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no…
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of…
We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind…
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to…
History is rooted in the future
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete…

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More Conserves Quotes

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Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. — Helen Keller
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested. — Hans Selye
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. — Neville Goddard
The vision behind our idea is a world where people don't carry hazardous chemicals in their bodies, the environment is… — Jeffrey Hollender
You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And… — Ronald Reagan
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold
Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots. — Nicholas Culpeper
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already… — Walter Lippmann
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is… — Marquis de Sade
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is… — John Scalzi

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