Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in… — Akio Toyoda Copy Share Image
My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The violets, and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light! The lilacs, where… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
When your breathing is easy and deep, your body works efficiently, and your mind settles. That doesn't mean that your balance (in… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks… — Khalil Gibran 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played… — Alla Nazimova Copy Share Image
Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and… — Errol Flynn 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
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
