“As soon as he had left the room and walked into the air, he knew that he would never return and for… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“He had a winged nature; she was rather of the vegetable kind, and could hardly be kept long alive, if drawn up… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime… — Aruna Roy Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, or only when the sunsets fade be mourned… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Science is science. Science is what is. After discovery, tests, trial, if a consensus of scientists today said that the sun orbits… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
“You killed them, Reuben. You killed them in their sins! You terminated their destiny on this earth. You snatched from them any… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“If we put aside the self-awareness standard -- and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm a diehard animal lover - I've always loved animals - but it was just one of those trips that I felt… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
“When she added that graduates were known for having a “natural physical endowment,” Darby could have sworn she looked right at her,… — Fiona Davis Copy Share Image
“He saw nature - he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The rural economy is significantly better. Our natural resources, particularly our working lands, are more resilient. And more money is being invested… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The feeling, for those seconds, is glorious—it reminds him that he is human, that he is so insignificant as to be utterly… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image