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I remember having been with this book [Into the Forest] for a long time, and I remember the moment that she [Patricia… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
He was smiling again, his face alight, and Ivy knew her own expression was a mirror to his. Ivoleyn, he said, softly… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens… — Mark Leiren-Young Copy Share Image
But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather—storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I completely fell in love with riding horses. I really didn't want to wear a helmet when I would go off with… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping.… — John-David F. Bartoe Copy Share Image
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
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