“Why does a bear shit in the woods? he demanded. Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis… — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
“Your days still half-opened, crackle like the fires to come. Outside. The earth. Wind. Night. Unfold for you. Listen to their sounds.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Drilling gaping holes into the crust of the earth with fallible equipment in order to summon forth millions of gallons of hydrocarbons… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game… — David Buss Copy Share Image
One can become something other than human. One can become limitless, enlightened, aware, awakened, knowledgeable and powerful in ways that human beings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Now, some of you may be shy by nature, perhaps feeling yourselves inadequate to respond affirmatively to a calling. Remember that this… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I believe from my many experiences that the spirit world is more real, more solid, than this earth in which we live.… — Rosemary Altea Copy Share Image
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is… — Kenya Hara Copy Share Image
Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Unless you think you’re dealing with the second coming of Jesus Christ, you are under no obligation to assume that any person… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It's nature that you're going to have relationships in your life, and sometimes it's with the people you work with. — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing,… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There comes a holy and transparent time when every touch of beauty opens the heart to tears. This is the time the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of… — Sally A. Kitt Chappell Copy Share Image
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into… — Daniel P. Reid Copy Share Image
“Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“as the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times… — William Bridges Copy Share Image
