song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
If you look at the life of Jesus, that's an example of true worship. You know look at the stories, if you… — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The most destructive criticism has not been able to dethrone Christ as the incarnation of perfect holiness. The waves of a tossing… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels -… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
We use a curtain, so we don't use a net, so there's nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Tyson- "Cash? Like...green paper?" Percy- "Yeah." Tyson- "Like the kind in duffel bags?" Percy-"Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--." "Tyson!… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it… — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or… — William Morris Copy Share Image
You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image