Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Well, it is a good thing he died young. Most men don’t have the good sense to know when to quit this… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed,… — Chuck Palanhiuk Copy Share Image
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“go ahead and make those changes. But How On Earth Do You Do This? Well, there are a number of… — Freja Petersen Copy Share Image
Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“In a sky swarming with uncountable stars, clouds endlessly flowing, and planets wandering, always and forever there has been just one moon… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Poor devils! After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
I'm a person who likes to hang out. I would never go on a blind date. That sounds like the most uncomfortable… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new… — Jack Kroll Copy Share Image
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its… — Stefanie Brook Trout Copy Share Image
“Jupiter's moons are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless,… — Steven D. Price Copy Share Image
People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
“Moksha is indeed one’s own nature. When (one’s) knowledge-vision-conduct become enlightened (samayak,becomes right), that is called moksha.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Indeed, if all of humankind could cooperate, trade and work together as the nations of the EU have done, then there would… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. 19 Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the… — Crossway Copy Share Image