Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
“If the gift is finally the sign and content of Christ’s lordship in earth, we can no longer live by our own… — Colin G. Kruse Copy Share Image
“For, besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature: it is easy to convince them of something, but difficult to… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“First, by what means it is that a Plant, or any Part of it, comes to Grow, a Seed to put forth… — Nehemiah Grew Copy Share Image
The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“I had discovered something, discovered something by accident. That ewe’s life had been saved not by medicinal therapy but simply by stopping… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness… — James Allen Copy Share Image
God has not sent a woman on the earth to 'fulfill' lustful physically satisfaction of the man only, rather she has sent… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The nature of the Pudgal (Complex of intake and output; body complex) is restlessness (unsteadiness) and the nature of the Real Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“If you turn your face to the Sun, my boy, your soul will, when you come to die, feel like an autumn,… — MacDonald George Copy Share Image
... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as our pride. Disguise it, struggle with… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
“If--when--you need to go off, fill your soul, feel different earth under your feet, I’ll do my best to handle missing you.… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Over the balustrade I could see the dark trees of Webster Groves and the more distant TV-tower lights that marked the boundaries… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
“Miss Minton, what on earth made you let a young girl travel up the Amazon and spend weeks living with savages? What… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“Wine, today as yesterday and tomorrow, continues to symbolize dual communion: on the one hand with nature and the soil, through the… — Emile Peynaud Copy Share Image
The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
A fish cannot drown in water, A bird does not fall in air. In the fire of creation, God doesn't vanish: The… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
When I was a Caterpillar, I was beautiful, profound, and aware. Yet only once I basked in my Cocoon, And reflected upon… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
“The actuality of Nature is like the beauty of Nature. We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“I mean loving the moon in the sky but leaving it there. Because even suppose you managed to bring it down, that… — Penelope Wilcock Copy Share Image
“The Stoic discovers the model for his virtuous conduct in studying the laws of nature; just as each object, plant, and animal… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“My hope, for all future generations, is that they will have (in addition to sunshine, fresh air, clean water, and fertile soil)… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, there are plenty of people," the Duc used to observe, "who never misbehave save when passion spurs them to ill; later,… — Donatien Alphonse François de Sade Copy Share Image
“By reversing the steps that we took to advance from the concept of substance to that of Materia Prima, we can imagine… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as… — James Gilmour Copy Share Image
When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that its power… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
