My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Everything is a tool. Every tool has a purpose. Every purpose always ends with a result. The end result is always a… — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
He [Kenneth Branagh] is the nicest guy. He is absolutely fantastic. Hes really down to earth, really friendly, and he has a… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“I forced myself to let my belly relax into a deeper breath. I closed my eyes and felt the solidity of the… — Sarah Andrews Copy Share Image
In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human.… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Am I then to believe that the same God Who expends millions of years in slowly fitting this earth for man's habitation,… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ...… — Russell Lord Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set.… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“A light and intermittent snowfall kept my world white over the next several days. The air was fresh and pure, nature's white… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“[Huxley's Perennial Philosophy is concerned with] the need to love the earth and respect nature instead of following the example of those… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“Recounting the experience of individuals brings home, as nothing else can, the sheer complexity of the choices they had to make, and… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
“Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from… — Rozonda Thomas Copy Share Image
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image