Disturbance Quotes (3)

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
Man and Nature, (1864), 36.
See also:  |  Agent (2)  |  Harmony (8)  |  Man (115)  |  Nature (255)

The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.
Man and Nature, (1864), 103.
See also:  |  Animal (63)  |  Complicated (6)  |  Equation (25)  |  Harmony (8)  |  Intelligence (34)  |  Life (169)  |  Nature (255)  |  Ocean (15)  |  Pebble (4)  |  Problem (72)  |  Solution (49)

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), 195.
See also:  |  Immature (2)  |  Neurotic (3)  |  Sex (25)  |  Understanding (99)

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