In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If sensibility and understanding as the two branches of human knowledge spring from one common root, to what end such a violent,… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Thus, as I believe, natural selection will tend in the long run to reduce any part of the organisation, as soon as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
Animals are everything to me. I always say, 'Who rescued who?' with my horse Belle. She is my greatest teacher. She teaches… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading… — Barbara Wentroble Copy Share Image
“But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if… — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
There were definitely auditions and even bookings and jobs where I played your typical Asian model minority: an IT tech guy or… — Manny Jacinto Copy Share Image
I'm pretty down to earth, I always have been and though I am on a much different path than most 25 year… — Tristan Prettyman Copy Share Image
“The world is holy. Nature is holy. The body is holy. Sexuality is holy. The imagination is holy. Divinity is immanent in… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
“Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that… — Degas Copy Share Image
The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad,… — Álvaro Mutis Copy Share Image
“She knew from her visions that she would be one of them, one of the chosen, set apart and marked for her… — Madison Thorne Grey Copy Share Image
Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able… — Aacharya Mahapragya Copy Share Image
Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
“I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I see the mountains in the sky; the great clouds; and the moon; I have a great and astonishing sense of something… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is a scientific explanation of healings by the power of Mind over matter which demonstrates that such healings are not miracles,… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
