Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison. — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea. — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a… — Alexandra Cousteau Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers.… — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a… — Richard Grossinger Copy Share Image
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking… — Thomas W. Horton Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
I put money into the funding for reclaiming salt marshes around the U.K. coast. The science is showing they sequester a huge… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
