(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. They either attach themselves to… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Nonsense, child! Nature never makes a ferret in the shape of a mastiff. You’ll never persuade me that I can’t tell what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The time has come for you, your Tribe, and all First Peoples. Together, you must learn, remember, and teach the languages, songs,… — Frederic M. Perrin Copy Share Image
But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
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“...a useful coorective to the triumphalism of some scientists. For example, Maddox went out of his way to emphasise the provisional nature… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“Happiness is free, Mama says, as sure as the blinkin' stars, the withered arms the trees throw down for our fires, the… — Emily Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The air was motionless, carved, a block of warm copper fitting neatly around the earth, molded while soft to fit every house… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
“I walked out to the hill just now. It is exalting, delicious. To stand embraced by the shadows of a friendly tree… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
“Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of… — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
“For some hippies, this vision could only be realised by rejecting scientific progress as a false God and returning to nature. Others,… — Richard Barbrook Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles didn't get like this often. He hated it when it did. And this time it was holding on. It had… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Everyone is beautiful. No one on this earth is ugly. It doesnt matter if you are fat skinny white black gay straight.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“Experience appears in this world as a birth. A birth which takes as assistants sky and earth and the water and wood… — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
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“In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older,… — Frederic Jameson Copy Share Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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