“Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon that Powell stumbled onto has a name: shifting baselines syndrome... Every generation of scientist accepts the oceans as it inherits… — Jon Mooallem Copy Share Image
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that… — Anil Agarwal Copy Share Image
There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“I don't know what's going on in the world," he said. "Everything seemed so reasonable and scientific until I discovered my son… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of mankind, are indeed sacred things; and if any public measure… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Silver” is what I called girls who were natural beauties but who also smoothed on a layer of pretty from a jar.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Ancient Egypt is possibly one of the clearest-cut cases of the iron law of nature which says that if a society which… — Arthur Kemp Copy Share Image
I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of… — Margo MacDonald Copy Share Image
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong.… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“I walk the sand alone, and feel it stirring as I roam, upon this breathing earth, where wave on wave begins new… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways… — Malcolm Wells Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Way up in the mountains Sea level too far to be seen The clouds mask civilization below People replaced by a sea… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image