“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound:… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants of shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean,… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the earth and sky together into… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding… — Frederick Carl Frieseke Copy Share Image
When the family has been brought into its natural order, the individual can leave it behind him while still feeling the strength… — Bert Hellinger Copy Share Image
“The mathematical likelihood that God exists is astronomical. But the idea that our limited human mentality can understand the true nature of… — Keith David Henry Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
“First Snow The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence… — mary oliver Copy Share Image
He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
“A charge often levied against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. There's some truth to this indictment, if… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Just because you are struggling on a farm or in a factory, doing something against which your whole nature rebels, because there… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“[T]his philosophy [of Kashmir Shaivism] posits a transcendental Absolute that is theistic in nature. This Absolute is not some separate divine source,… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
“It happens thousands of times a day around the world, maybe millions, yet it is the culmination of human achievement, of human… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“People have been indoctrinated so completely by their jobs that they don’t want to know how something works, they’re willing to accept… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
“What are you going to do? (Angelia) I ought to rip your throat out. But lucky for you, I’m just a dumb… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The stream never tells itself that it wants to be an ocean. It understands its place in the universe, accepts its function… — Khorshed Bhavnagri Copy Share Image
“All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances,… — Benedict Anderson Copy Share Image
“There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently,… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble… — Karl von Frisch Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being… — Thomas Tredgold Copy Share Image