We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
“To the ancients, the cosmic serpent—the spirit of earth and water—was everywhere known as the energy source of life: of healing and… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“From what the Scriptures say of man's state by nature. It is declared to be a state of " blindness " and… — Archibald Alexander Hodge Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why it was so important for her to prove to a stranger that we were good-hearted, when we knew… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“I swear it by earth and water,"said the boy in green. "I swear it by bronze and iron," his sister said. "We… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality,… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
“The new “theory of justice” demands that men counteract the “injustice” of nature by instituting the most obscenely unthinkable injustice among men:… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“When you are twenty-five and are a natural heavyweight, missing a meal makes you very hungry. But it also sharpens all of… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share Image
“In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to… — Mark Carwardine Copy Share Image
All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Two or three million years ago, the Earth was a ball of fire, revolving arround it's own axis. It took millions of… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
“Get this straight, you can use a Leopard in a mission, you can send him out to kill for you. Hell, you… — Stephani Hecht Copy Share Image
“We practice wonder by resisting the temptation to hurry past things worth seeing, but it can take work to transcend our preconceived… — Lynada Lynn Haupt Copy Share Image
“Sophie couldn't stop smiling. It had to be true that nature was built up of small parts that never changed. At the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“…my belief is that even if death is the same for everybody, life is not. Death belongs to nature. But our lives… — Denise S Getson Copy Share Image
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“This theme is central to the gospel: our future hope is for that day when the kingdoms of this world have become… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“No, I’m talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“[Ann] didn't approve of the contributions her parents made to large cultural institutions like the Lincoln Center...The Draytons were also big givers… — Sigrid Núñez Copy Share Image
“To ask the master for a knife, or skillet, or any small convenience of the kind, would be answered with a kick,… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
“You see that thirty-year-old blonde next to Jake? That’s his fiancée, Carrie Clapboard. Carrie moved all manner of heaven and earth to… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image