Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million… — Jack Edwards Copy Share Image
Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not… — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials.… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth… — James Harrington Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
We played nightclubs for seven years solid before we got a record deal, and then 'Cowboys From Hell' and 'Vulgar Display Of… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
All religions upon the earth are necessary because there are people who need what they teach. ... Each church fulfills spiritual needs… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must… — George Mason Copy Share Image
For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure,… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and… — Eden Ahbez Copy Share Image
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know… — Walter Reisch Copy Share Image
Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him,… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image