You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot 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 trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard… The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
You really do hate me, don't you? I mean, destroying someone's ice-cream cone? That's vicious." Her cheeks reddened. "I didn't see you… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
I think it's great that they can come in and suck us dry. Remind me to leave my window unlatched tonight. Day.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image