I sat listening to the birdcalls and smelling the new…

“Letting go of the pipe in the laundry room, he could feel in his throat so many sentences from the night's reading of emails,…

— Andre Dubus III

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous…

— John Green

“Why do you fear touching the earth? Does not the concrete separate you from it enough?”

— Chester Brown

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..

— Walter Kirn

“We’ll mark the butterflies disappearing over the hedge with tiny wristwatches on their wings: our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas”

— Irving Layton

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

— Pablo Neruda

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

— Chogyam Trungpa

“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so…

— John Williams

“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth…

— Robert Harris

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

— Rudyard Kipling

Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,…

— Anonymous

“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write,    To thank the God of nature, who conveyed    My soul to me, and with such care…

— Anonymous

Remember that your natural state is joy.

— Wayne Dyer

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap