“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
If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“What we call “the laws of nature” merely reflect the normal way in which God sustains or governs the natural world. Perhaps… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here -… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“I need wonder. I know that death is coming. I smell it in the wind, read it in the paper, watch it… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic… — Jay Kappraff Copy Share Image
If gifts of nature are absent, if opportunities are not forthcoming on their own, we have no reason to grumble. Even a… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd; They, who the written Rule and… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“[T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“The fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“ This is where he struck the earth, Annabeth said, where he made a saltwater spring appear when he had the contest… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
“In the dry places, men begin to dream, wrote Wright Morris, who grew up north of here, in Nebraska. Where rivers run… — Julene Bair Copy Share Image
“There are underlying principles at play in nature, from the fields, quanta, and forces of the universe to the ebb and flow… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
“At times, one of man's greater needs is freedom from himself, and this freedom is likely to be increasingly threatened by population… — Paul Errington Copy Share Image
Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
“If we are to succeed in the great task before us we must adopt a humbler attitude towards the elementary things of… — LORD NORTHBOURNE Copy Share Image
Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet… — Andrew Denton Copy Share Image
“There are Things that do not love the sun. They weep and curse their own creation. Sometimes on earth a cruel shift… — Jack Cady Copy Share Image
The Lord never had - and never will have to the end of time - a church on the earth without prophets,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings,… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ's atoning sacrifice for humanity's sin or to the nature and… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image