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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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
But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways,… — Enrique Penalosa 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
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
