Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn’t change its nature. This isn’t Beauty and the… — Eliza Crewe Copy Share Image
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“New Heavens and a New Earth 17 “For behold, k I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension,… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I would never want to bypass those sleepless nights and anxiety because of this fact: that the stars had not changed, the… — Ben Shattuck Copy Share Image
Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Each and every tiny thing, every human, animal, bird, fish, insect, plant and stones on Earth Mother vibrate to their own individual… — Lee Standing Bear Moore Copy Share Image
“The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
“At the Biesbosch nature center, I met up with a water-ministry official named Eelke Turkstra. Turkstra runs a program called Ruimte voor… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“And so we know the satisfaction of hate. We know the sweet joy of revenge. How it feels good to get even.… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The green-eyed angel came in less than a half hour and fell docile as a lamb into my arms. We kissed and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed - begin with these, learn a little what it is to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Song of myself I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists… The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature… — David Baron Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“My woodland lair was beautiful: a clearing that was green with life. It smelt of summer and rain and newness. It was… — Gillian Philip Copy Share Image
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We cant escape pain; we cant escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give… — Jacob Held Copy Share Image
“Men of England, heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, Hopes of her, and one another; Rise… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“How selfish soever man may be supposed,” Smith wrote, “there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
Thoughts and pictures come to my mind... thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on… — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
“During the worst of it, onlookers who have learned my story often comment to me that, “All the hardships you suffered were… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“The style was strange. The writing was clear and sometimes even transparent, but the way the stories followed one after another didn’t… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Birth control was frowned upon by the people in Envy and elsewhere. After so much of the human race had been destroyed,… — Joss Ware Copy Share Image
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens…inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of… — Anthony Everitt Copy Share Image
