The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
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I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“The children we birth do not belong to us. They belong to God. We are simply the vessel for which they arrive… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“I felt a calmness birds can bring to people; and, quieted, I sensed here the outlines of the oldest mysteries: the nature… — Barry López Copy Share Image
Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Bolshevism failed because it was both unnatural and immoral. Our system stands. Is it wrong? Of course it is wrong, at a… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any… — John Muir Copy Share Image
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Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems?… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
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Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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“The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
“The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Socialism is the fantastic younger brother of almost decrepit despotism, which it wants to succeed; its efforts are, therefore, in the deepest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The nature of the job of attorney general has changed - irrevocably. And we should never again have an attorney general, of… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble.… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
“He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image