“There now,” she said to the flowers in an encouraging tone, “you have food and air. You’ll be very happy and pretty… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“Until tonight. Something was different tonight. There was an edge to this darkness that made his hackles rise. Nine days they had… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
“The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It was all right when I did it,” I said, “but when you did it, it was wrong. As though—you were following… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“For instance, have you heard of Rupert Sheldrake’s work with dogs? He puts a time-recording camera on both the dog at home… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
It is the nature of all living things to find some being greater than themselves and place their trust in that being,… — Aizen Sosuke Copy Share Image
“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned.… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Never counted in the "costs" of war are the dead birds, the charred animals the murdered fish, incinerated insects, poisoned water sources,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role of the Bolsheviks in the October… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“I discovered another analogy in the legacy of Prophet Muhammad that immediately clicked with me: that the angels put down their wings… — Sahar El-Nadi Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“The rose is a symbol of the inner mysteries of Witchcraft. A red rose symbolizes the mysteries as they reside in Nature,… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
“Central to Piaget's framework - and often ignored even by those who count themselves as Piagetian - is this activity, equilibration. Whether… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“One way of approaching the question about what makes a human being the same person over time would be to point out… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Masks are arrested expressions and admirable echoes of feeling, at once faithful, discrete, and superlative. Living things in contact with the air… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive… — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
“Tree' is the title of a dance, is the cadence of a song. The black silhouette is only a moment of stillness… — Amanda Fieldsend Copy Share Image
“What happens when an animal or person dies? Something seems to have departed--something like a vital spark that makes the difference between… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“This was not an academic matter. Biology, as George Wald had said, was a unique science because it could not define its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase,… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed… — Charles Thom Copy Share Image
“I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles,… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could… — William Bateson Copy Share Image