“No matter how big my attempts to hide from my true nature, it still existed. I was a machine,and a powerful one.” — Debra Driza Copy Share Image
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.” — David Allen Copy Share Image
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“If we wish to understand the nature of the Universe we have an inner hidden advantage: we are oursleves little portions of… — Jacques Boivin Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
My fear of drama school is that the natural extraordinary but eccentric talent sometimes can't find its place in a drama school.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Such was the Arab of the desert, the dweller in tents, in whom was fulfilled the prophetic destiny of his ancestor Ishmael.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“I think as long as humans don’t solve this human nature trait of sort of settling into a world-view after a while,… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“It seems everything in nature that has beauty, also has a price. Let the value of our planets wildlife be to nature… — Paul Oxton Copy Share Image
The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession,… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
“Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective.… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the… — Lou Gehrig Copy Share Image
“Hope says: one day you will see her, if you will only wait. Despair says: all you have left of her is… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“Abundance is, but a matter of perception. For here in these lands of plenty, there are more natural treasures than one can… — Atalina Wright Copy Share Image
