Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts--… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party.… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think some modesty actually serves me by just accepting that I am an instrument. I'm not trying to match up to… — Mirah Copy Share Image
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
A gift is like a seed; it is not an impressive thing. It is what can grow from the seed that is… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each… — David Abram Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father,… — Timothy F. Cahill Copy Share Image
O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders,… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
You have to risk to get ahead The person whos always hugging the tree trunk and never walking out onto the skinny… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song.… — Felix Houphouet-Boigny Copy Share Image
If we are ever truly going to find purpose and meaning in our lives, we first have to rise above the trees… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned… — Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If your cat's up a tree, you call the fire department. If someone's hurt, you call the fire department. If there's a… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings… — Radical Face Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Certain miracles that I beheld there have haunted my memory ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond blossoms,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
