I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom;… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
“Had you accepted that third counsel of the mighty spirit, you would have furnished all that man seeks on earth, that is:… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In the new world we are entering, protecting the diversity of life on earth is no longer simply a matter of setting… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
You cannot change the environment, but you can change yourself. You cannot change who you are, but you can change your values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“There dwells a life in every star; With brother spheres it rolls afar Its self-elected, radiant way. Still throb within the great… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, the billion dreams of the town since its origin stirred in a maelstrom far from the reach of the shrimpers’ nets.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
My birthday is May 10. I'm so Taurus, you would not even believe. All the Tauruses I know have this connection to… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to… — Margaret R. Ellsberg Copy Share Image
And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“His action of joining them, which would have been rude in a restaurant that was not moving at three hundred kilometers an… — Alexander Jablokov Copy Share Image
And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live.… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This is the bottom line, you have no absolute proof of God’s existence, and therefore no real proof of His true nature,… — Kimberly Giles Copy Share Image
“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Your habits play a massive role in your sinful nature. Our habits are shaped by either a self-disciplined will, or a powerful… — Jarrid Wilson Copy Share Image
When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race back over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When you stand, you bear weight on the only structures in the body that have specifically evolved to hold you up in… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more, And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair;… — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
“You’re not asking me to choose you. There’s no choice about it. It’s always been you. Your father once told me that… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A lot of time I fight guys and after a few rounds, they accept my dominance. They aren't fighting to win anymore.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image