Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us. — Ali Bongo Ondimba Copy Share Image
We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn… — Lynn Andrews Copy Share Image
“Wager: It's good to see you smiling. Connor: There's not a whole hell of a lot to smile about. Some freak of… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
“There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value. At a certain level of wealth, the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Nature has embellish'd rare as May Its dew-gemm'd primroses glitter'd up, To show pride from each budding weed, Since from skies naught… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
Despite the bigoted nature of Donald Trump's plan to keep Muslims - all Muslims out of this country and almost universal condemnation… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
“Hatred wants to annihilate, but it annihilates by destroying, by making our awareness dull, by suppressing, by dividing. True Nature does not… — A.H. Almaas Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“That’s our job as Christians—to perpetually bring renewal and supply everywhere we go. When things get out of hand and situations on… — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
“The cedars 'know the history of the earth better than history itself.' If this was so, it was little wonder that they… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“You are not going to heaven if you do good, you are not going to hell if you do evil, you'll simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life… — Tony Juniper Copy Share Image
There's a natural separation that kids have to go through with their parents, but then when you put that on top of… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Artists who painted natural curiosities found themselves documenting a world emerging and disappearing at the same time, a brief encounter as species… — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human in not having to be just happy or just sad in… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are natures way of forcing change breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
