I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.… — John Green Copy Share Image
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“[T]he contradiction in Catholicism, that at the same time marriage is holy and celibacy is holy. This simply realises as a practical… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“These partisan beliefs can upset the equation in which more information will bring us closer to the truth. A recent study in… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“I don't care if he's not the emotional type or the complimentary type or what. No one can look at you in… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Truly, there are no justified ways to how a mule tramples the earth, but who would be burdened to hear such an… — Volatalistic Phil Copy Share Image
New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company… — B. Kevin Turner Copy Share Image
The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“She suddenly realized how much she loved the rain; loved the way it seemed like the sky was purging something it held… — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Yes. I—I can't help liking her—just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Buddha is a precedent more than a prophet; and where Jesus came to earth as the way, the truth, and the life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's good for parents to be supportive, to motivate, and to somewhat nudge their kids because the majority of kids… — Dominique Dawes Copy Share Image
Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
A woman will test you to see if you are what you say you are. Any woman that you fall in love… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“The two boys had come along and found the rabbit dying by the bank. The breeze was up a little and it… — Cynan Jones Copy Share Image
We targeted five industries for growth, industries where we have natural advantages in North Dakota: value-added agriculture, advanced manufacturing, technology-based businesses, energy… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
“the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in… — Stephanie Golden Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“You may not know it but the keeping of a large house by one girl is the hardest work going on earth.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But… — Linda Dillow Copy Share Image