Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and… — Wallace Carothers Copy Share Image
Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
He regarded the world-objects right in front of his face-as if from a great distance. For when he moved on the earth… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Here's a question we all ask ourselves at least once when we're young: Where does that starlight come from? It's been there… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Oh, what a favored people we are to have this light, this knowledge, these opportunities for happiness on earth and throughout the… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth.… — Alexander Anderson Copy Share Image
If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“Did you know that shooting stars are made when stars die?' Mina asked. 'Really? I thought they were stars going on a… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
"Give me liberty or give me death." A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not… — John Locke Copy Share Image
On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
When we're on the space station, we orbit the Earth 16 times per day, which means we're constantly moving to and away… — Thomas Marshburn Copy Share Image
Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite,… — Alan Seeger Copy Share Image
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
