The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse,… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
I am super inspired by the Grand Canyon. Looking at nature and observing what it does even looking at a little seed,… — Kissey Copy Share Image
I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
People who work for me are working for what I believe in. The leaders who run our companies do so on the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister,… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses,… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Yeah, you make some tackles or you meet the ground and you feel the pain. Ain't no question about it. Whether it… — Charles Woodson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
“Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its… — William Borah Copy Share Image
I felt it absolutely essential that we plant the U.N. flag in Rwanda and plant it in a place of significance to… — Romeo Dallaire Copy Share Image
Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A… — G. Tyler Miller Copy Share Image
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh -… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image