“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
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 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
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
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
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
“If you look at the creation of the earth, you’ll see that all the forces of physics combined to create an ebb… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I expect, if I am faithful with yourselves, that I shall see the time with yourselves that we shall know how to… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
“Flowers live, they are perfect and they affect us; they are God’s glory, they make us know why we are alive and… — Elizabeth Alexander Copy Share Image
“I am a vile polluted lump of earth; So I’ve continued since my birth; Although Jehovah grace does daily give me, As… — Douglas Bond Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in… — Gerald Jonas Copy Share Image
“All things are formed of patterns, from a single blade of grass to the most majestic of mountains: air and water, fire… — Melissa McPhail 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
“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
“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
“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
“If we think our job here on earth is to fix ourselves, we will keep looking for the broken places. If we… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“I waited a moment, then lowered myself, cross-legged, to the earth. Some of the graves were adorned with flowers, in various stages… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“And if we believe it, and pray, as he taught us, for God’s kingdom to come on earth as in heaven, there… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time,… — Gregory Petsko Copy Share Image
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party,… — Mike Dirnt Copy Share Image
“Every man you see upon the earth has some value within him already, hence you should treat every man you come across… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Nothing in the nature lives for itself Rivers don't drink their own water Trees don't eat their own fruit Sun doesn't give… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I'm not asking myself, 'How I can be different from Netanyahu?' because I am different, and Kadima is different from Likud, by… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
The interior nature of 'Basic Black' is central to its unfolding. Shirley Kaszenbowski, regarded from the outside, is the embodiment of the… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image