“living only for the moment, savouring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms, and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking wine, and… — Asai Ryoi Copy Share Image
Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“And they took the strain and off they went up the field the plough cutting clean. I can mind how I stood… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Can it be, thought I, that my sole mission on earth is to destroy the hopes of others? Ever since I began… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“ENDURANCE I don't know you, But I love you, Just as God loves me and you. The sun and the moon Are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“No matter how cleverly we disguise our anxieties they bear witness to the imperfect nature of the human heart. To be is… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
I love nature like nothing else. Before I moved to Switzerland, my home was a flat in London with a garden. In… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
“Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Unlike the ick trend (which is usually just absurd), the beige flag trend is really just simplifying and normalizing the fact that… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
“Amy Martin (ladysky) and Daniel Baciagalupo had a month to spend on Charlotte Turner's island in Georgian Bay; it was their wilderness… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Because she was looking down and focusing her attention so precisely, Alice lost track of time and of herself. She wouldn't be… — Kevin Henkes Copy Share Image
Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
“Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“But just what are imaginary numbers, you may now be asking yourself, and what on earth could it mean to raise e… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
“The old man sang for a while, and Mora felt in her head the beginning of a long siege. A wilderness had… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
We dont want to lose because of our competitive nature, which is at an incredibly high level. No one wants to lose,… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“...which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“the Church is a kingdom not of this world.’ If it is not of this world, then it cannot exist on earth… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image