“Certain living things prefer the dark, thriving in the shadows of tombstones and crypts, flowering admist the dead. Others tend toward the… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
“All billions-of-years views place death before sin. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this. These views teach that almost as soon… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer...… — Eugene J. Martin Copy Share Image
“One of the great challenges in reconstructing a mass extinction is making sense of what happened when. In the same way we… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the… — Daniel Mazia Copy Share Image
[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
“Faith is trust and belief in a higher power. It is a dedication to the realization that there is a power greater… — Mark Anthony Copy Share Image
Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not… — Ralph W. Gerard Copy Share Image
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists.… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“Kindly consider the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if… — Bulgakov Master and Margarita Copy Share Image
A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
“We are made of the stuff of stars, given our lives by a living world, given our selves by time. We are… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“He was dark-haired as his mother, and promised to be like her in mood also; for he was not merry, and spoke… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“Now Brutus had deliberately assumed a mask to hide his true character. When he learned of the murder by Tarquin of the… — Livy Copy Share Image
“I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“I saw a moving sight the other morning before breakfast in a little hotel where I slept in the dusty fields. The… — William James Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Some people say they don’t believe in God, but they believe in an energy that moves through all living things. Others say… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is… — Mikiso Hane Copy Share Image
“The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sensing her hard separateness in their separate footsteps as they walked towards her home in the sleeping suburbs, he began to feel… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“At this point I reveal myself in my true colours, as a stick-in-the-mud. I hold a number of beliefs that have been… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strives, this one jettest all in vain! In… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Well the Dutch invented the microscope," she said. "They were jewellers, grinders of lenses. The want it all as detailed as possible… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take… — Jean-Michel Cousteau Copy Share Image
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Those of us who are in tune with nature and animals know it is our way of life, Bram. There is a… — Ralph Helfer Copy Share Image
“This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity. I'm imbued, Max. I'm imbued with some special spirit.… — Howard Beale Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Love for trees pours out of her—the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image