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Yet beyond the tantrums and the frustration and the never-ending hyperactivity was something really unique: a pure and innocent nature, a boy who saw the world without prejudice, a human who had never lied.
Well, I believe we just look at
nature'
s experiments.
Erinaceous: pertaining to the hedgehog family; of the
nature
of a hedgehog.
JM: Well, you know, ugly, I mean, powerful and tragic and horrific and everything, but it was also as, in nature, an enormous event that was transformed after the fact into this residue, and like many other ruins — you go to the ruins of the Colosseum or the ruins of a cathedral someplace — and they take on a new meaning when you watch the weather.
I mean, there were afternoons I was down there, and the light goes pink and there's a mist in the air and you're standing in the rubble, and I found myself recognizing both the inherent beauty of
nature
and the fact that nature, as time, is erasing this wound.
But it is not a law of
nature
that centralized data processing is always less efficient than distributed data processing.
Then one day I told him, "Reg E., what is subordination for verbal measures to tonal consideration?" (Laughter) And he handed me a black-and-white printed out thesis on a poet named Etheridge Knight and the oral
nature
of poetry, and from that point, Reggie stopped becoming the best to me, because what Etheridge Knight taught me was that I could make my words sound like music, even my small ones, the monosyllables, the ifs, ands, buts, whats, the gangsta in my slang could fall right on the ear, and from then on, I started chasing Etheridge Knight.
He was the one who said that life in a state of
nature
was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
And in my nature, I guess, I am a doer of things more than I am a spectator or a contemplator of things, and it's that dichotomy, the gulf between ideas and action that I'm going to try and explore briefly.
So language is not so much a creator or shaper of human nature, so much as a window onto human
nature.
In a book that I'm currently working on, I hope to use language to shed light on a number of aspects of human nature, including the cognitive machinery with which humans conceptualize the world and the relationship types that govern human interaction.
So to sum up: language is a collective human creation, reflecting human nature, how we conceptualize reality, how we relate to one another.
I hadn't really thought that it could be sort of preventative in nature, until I was about 20, when a number of things happened in my life in quite quick succession, really serious things which just flipped my life upside down and all of a sudden I was inundated with thoughts, inundated with difficult emotions that I didn't know how to cope with.
But the third class of reforms is that we've got to change the
nature
of social relationships in Congress.
The politicians I've met are generally very extroverted, friendly, very socially skillful people, and that's the
nature
of politics.
"Work is against human
nature.
Why would work tire us if it's in our
nature?
These are some of the questions that are at the center of my exploration on the
nature
of erotic desire and its concomitant dilemmas in modern love.
And we hope to understand something fundamental about our human
nature.
Because, if you don't know yet, everything that we use to define what human
nature
is comes from these storms, comes from these storms that roll over the hills and valleys of our brains and define our memories, our beliefs, our feelings, our plans for the future.
We are dealing with perverts here of an economic and financial
nature.
It took
nature
100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens.
It just is what it is, and once you have it, the words "natural" and "synthetic," they don't matter, and
nature
synthesizes this molecule just like we do, except
nature
is much better at this than we are.
Nature
is the original organic chemist, and her construction also fills our sky with the oxygen gas we breathe, this high-energy oxygen.
So
nature
is made of chemicals.
Plenty of
nature'
s chemicals are quite toxic, and others are delicious, and some are both ... (Laughter) toxic and delicious.
So
nature'
s molecules are everywhere, including the ones that have decomposed into these black mixtures that we call petroleum.
We can make molecules that are exact copies of nature, like epinephrine, or we can make creations of our own from scratch, like these two.
But
nature
is much better at making them than we are, so hers look more impressive than ours, like this one.
I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in
nature
and explore what makes us human.
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