“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Way is not remote from people, but people distance themselves from the Way by trying to nurture life without knowing how.… — Chen Kaiguo Copy Share Image
“Any Christianity that rests upon a dichotomy - some sort of platonic concept - simply does not have an answer to nature,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of… — George F. Hourani Copy Share Image
“I believe there is nothing that our better nature needs more absolutely than music, no other art of perfection possesses that strange… — Pauline Decaradeuc Heyward Copy Share Image
“Non-Euclidean' became a byword for non-absolute knowledge. It also served to illustrate most vividly the gap between mathematics and the natural world.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I have heard people suggest that because humans are natural that everything humans do or create is natural. Chainsaws are natural. Nuclear… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I have received the favor of your letter of August 17th, and with it the volume you were so kind as to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to… — Chris Stewart Copy Share Image
“Observe the nature of today’s alleged peace movements. Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, they keep screaming that the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that's what I think. It's not that it's soothing… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... believed that nature was filled with spirits.… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“But humans have a built-in weakness for fats and sugar. We evolved in lean environments where it was a big plus for… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their plumage dabbled with blood... some feebly twitching a wing, some staring up at the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“In a deserted stretch of the Karadj highway Munis had come face-to-face with unbridled lust, although she knew what lust was before… — Shahrnush Parsipur Copy Share Image
“While the akashic records are an occultist concept, the laws of physics demand that they must exist; and there are numerous ways… — Marc Seifer Copy Share Image
“Their parents had been progressive by nature. They had taken their daughters with them to the Far East on a business trip… — Mervin Miller Copy Share Image
“Although nature has proven season in and season out that if the thing that is planted bears at all, it will yield… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“... that eternally restless, eternally unquenched desire for naked paganism, that love that is the supreme joy, that is divine serenity itself-… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“I think of all that is happening elsewhere, as I lie here. Nearby, I can hear the sounds of a road crew.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“ Gospel The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Listen," Kirillov stopped, gazing before him with fixed, ecstatic eyes. "Listen to a big idea: There was one day on earth, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line the American love affair with wilderness changed from the thoughtful, sensitive isolationism of Thoreau to the bully, manly,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The wind blew stronger. Masakichi had to walk into its resistance, but his pace did not slow. The further he went, the… — Leza Lowitz Shogo Oketani Copy Share Image
“Suffering is the nature of this world. It is the golden standard by which all things are measured. It is not happiness… — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
“Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is unfound the spirit must… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“When I sit up I am greeted by the world. Level with the treetops I look down on sparrows swooping in and… — Daniel Hays Copy Share Image
“Genesis According to George Segal,” The Spirit brooded on the water and made The earth, and molded us out of earth. And… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Here are the radical words I have been alluding to: "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“The Rothschilds taught the rich men of the earth to smile and be glad to permit such debts to be incurred. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one’s life. It is an ongoing,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“It is the impulse of science to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“This is an important point, difficult for the modern mind to grasp: homosexuality as a sexual orientation was unknown to the ancient… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“As a subject of behavioral study, nest architecture offers an appealing feature that practically no other behavior offer; namely, the nest is… — Walter Tschinkel Copy Share Image
“others, without further ceremony ascribing to the strongest an authority over the weakest, have immediately struck out government, without thinking of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature.… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
