If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“But now let us consider the holes in our own bodies and into what these congenital wounds open. Under the skin of… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“Ecologically, bourgeois exploitation and manipulation are undermining the very capacity of the earth to sustain advanced forms of life. The crisis is… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“What does this think about that? Nothing thinks about anything. Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants? If it… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“If you can live with the sadness of human life (what Rinpoche often called the tender heart or the genuine heart of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and… — Doris Brown Heritage Copy Share Image
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“As one half of our nature seeks to create heroes to worship, the other must ceaselessly attempt to cast them down and… — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
“I, however, typically trust people until they prove me wrong. As an energy-sensitive person with a highly intuitive nature, I pick up… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Diamonds are created through the pressures of earth and then have to go through a million dirty roads to get to the… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
“When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of… — Charles Edwin Winter Copy Share Image
It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, Aristophanes relates, there were gods in the heavens and humans down on earth. But we humans did not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I often get asked by people 'Is your Twitter real?' and things of that nature. I'm never sure how to respond to… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It was when the sun gently slipped off the backside of the horizon and slowly drew the light of the day in… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is a meltdown of authority going on in the world and a corresponding increase of lawlessness. The earth itself is also… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Hillary Clinton] has talked about not being a natural campaigner. And she has this big shadow because her husband, the former president… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image