As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me.… — John Barlas Copy Share Image
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past.… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can… — William of Conches Copy Share Image
I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Lik the tree falling in the forest," says Ira. "Huh?" "You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Do you understand that? So, all our decision making is… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
God not only loves his people but delights in each one of us. He takes great pleasure in us. He's actually blessed… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white… — John Updike Copy Share Image
This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians;… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Happiness takes work. It doesn't always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn't fall prey… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“• He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves… The promise of gold and… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from… — John Hay Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
![“[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.” quote by William of Conches](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/de0/william-of-conches-59004_can-do_they-say-we-do-not-know-how-this-is-but_566469.jpg)
