The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning… — Origen Copy Share Image
The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people.… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree?… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be… — Stuart L. Pimm Copy Share Image
It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising… — Juan Rulfo Copy Share Image
“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the… — Denton Welch Copy Share Image
"So we'd get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we'd read poetry to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful,” said Katie. “But because there… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on… — Cyril Clarke Copy Share Image
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It should be for satsang that we go to spiritual centers. By going there, people who are involved in the world can… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
