At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . .… — Walter B. Pitkin Copy Share Image
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Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
This festival... the festival of Makar Sankranti... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
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The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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