School is supposed to civilise us, to tame our wilder instincts and teach us how to be more sensible, more knowledgeable, and… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The nuns taught us there were two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have… — Terrence Malick Copy Share Image
Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Jesus paid for salvation for every man, woman, boy, and girl who would ever live on this earth. But people must believe… — Kenneth E Hagin Copy Share Image
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully.… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
“Summer has weeks left, but once the calendar displays the word “September,” you’d think it was Latin for “evacuate.” I pity them… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
“[They] believed that the worst way to die, was far from home. That one’s soul traveled the earth, lost forever. But this… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Football was a natural thing for me, and with no injuries or injury history that would stop me from training, I just… — Jack Wilshere Copy Share Image
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
“to make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If four of you are playing hide and seek you will only every find the other three. For you are already here.… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“Comfrey because it’s a natural disinfectant. Violet leaves because they cure headaches and sweet woodruff because it gives soap a cut-grass smell.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“The One who attains the awareness that, 'This is not my inherent nature;' He constantly has the awareness of the Self and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And when you journey in the earth, there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer, if you fear that… — Quran Copy Share Image
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image