“What is word for good together living? Nobody shits in the well?" I laughed. "Civilization?" He nodded, splaying his fingers: amusement. "Yes,"… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in… — Nina Riggs Copy Share Image
“For some, this idea was a shade too close to the lifestyles our Nordic cousins. Hygge and lagom, the Danish and Swedish… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“He laughingly expressed his surprise at having provoked such anger. Perhaps he said this in the hope of minimising in my eyes… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to draw a sharp line in one's imagination between the "nature" present on the Rocky Mountain front and that… — Ted Steinberg Copy Share Image
'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them--that so often and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
One of the most memorable moments was when I first saw earth because I had seen many pictures, many videos of earth… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“Epilogue The Three Stages of Awakening My job here on earth is twofold. My job is first of all to make amends.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“All the substances that are the main drugs of abuse today originate in natural plant products and have been known to human… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well.… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
“Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs. They… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a… — Jay Cassidy Copy Share Image
“The mountains form a natural barrier between the Capitol and the eastern districts. It is almost impossible to enter from the east… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Play Quidditch at all?” “No,” Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch could be. “ I do — Father says it’s… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I've realized that everything is about relationships. I've witnessed that ultimately you can't take what you don't give because there is a… — Vivian Elisabeth Glyck Copy Share Image
Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It's like Christmas Eve. "Okay, it's going to be… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
“In agricultural communities, male leadership in the hunt ceased to be of much importance. As the discipline of the hunting band decayed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Hygge is our awareness of the scale of our existence in contrast to the immensity of life. It is our sense of… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
