It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow… — Seneca Copy Share Image
There has been times when we've had really great commercial success in various parts of the world. And the sensibility is something… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in… — Stella Reid Copy Share Image
In the beginning, after this earth was prepared for man, the Lord commenced his work upon what is now called the American… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Terence McKenna once famously said that science asks “Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.” That miracle is the… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
“Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Did I think then, or do I believe later, that the vision was in any sense a direct call to me from… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even… — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld.… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“In cities and factories, the vices of our nature are more fully displayed,” declared James Hammond of South Carolina in 1829, while… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“My stupidity gave its blessing to succouring nature, on her knees before God. What I am (my drunken laughter and happiness) is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
A song was heard at Christmas To wake the midnight sky: A saviour's birth, and peace on earth, And praise to God… — Timothy Dudley-Smith Copy Share Image
A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“He kissed like he was drowning and I was air. It was passionate, and desperate, and like nothing I had ever experienced… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“But if Jesus is raised from the dead, then the scriptures have reached their goal in him, and it’s now time for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“After searching for it uselessly in the taste of the earth, in the perfumed letters from Pietro Crespi, in the tempestuous bed… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“free life” as described by a mountaineer: “The mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshakable, elemental as earth and ice, water,… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification.… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
