The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
A million miles from nowhere, is better than going nowhere, a million times — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in… — Billy Mills Copy Share Image
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over… — Kristin Harmel Copy Share Image
The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
First of all, when the guy controls the distance the way Conor controls the distance, it's not easy to take the guy… — Gilbert Burns Copy Share Image
Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I do everything by hand... Even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the… — Margaret Kilgallen Copy Share Image
