A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself. — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth! — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other. — William Golding Copy Share Image
This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain — Margaret of Cortona Copy Share Image
All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and earth are carried out through angels. — Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Copy Share Image
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The nature of mind is just too close to be recognized. Just as we are unable to see our own face, mind… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially,… — A. W. Tillinghast Copy Share Image
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“The nature of our culture is such that if you were to look for instruction in how to do any of these… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I was at a most impressionable age when I was transplanted to the new soil. I was in that period when even… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You need to become a pen in the Sun's hand. We need for the earth to sing through our pores and eyes.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls. — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
“According to Scripture, the trouble with man by nature is not that he is incomplete but that he is dead.” — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. — Edmond De Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.” — Jeff Swanson Copy Share Image
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Love was overrated and nature used it to kick us in the gut and trick us into reproducing.” — Georgia Cates Copy Share Image
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play? — Anna Cora Mowatt Copy Share Image