For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards… — Tim Krabbe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes if you listen, you can hear the earth stop, like it's waiting for you to catch up with it. Like it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to… — Valentina Zelyaeva Copy Share Image
“Do we see the hundred-thousandth part of what exists? Look here; there is the wind, which is the strongest force in nature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“just a short trip to any French territory in the Pacific is enough to convince even the most casual observer that the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
“If Jason were here, he'd try to get you to eat protein bars and squirrel food. Do you know one Halloween he… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“The featureless trundle of my existence began to change. At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“When someone is operating out of alignment, they may do harm, or what you would call harm, but it is not done… — Paul Selig Copy Share Image
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition.… — Warren Jeffs Copy Share Image
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Whenever you're on a reality show, you're the scum of the earth. You have no talent, you're a nothing, and you deserve… — The Miz Copy Share Image
…the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
“Prayer never evaporates. It sets into motion forces as inexorable and perhaps as "unhurriable" as a glacier, but when the Lord's arm… — Elisabeth Elliott Copy Share Image
“No, no, you twit, move towards the well-hung male of the species! It's only natural; you don't want to insult Mother Nature.… — Jenna McCormick Copy Share Image
“The earth, so long a slaughter field, shall yet an Eden bloom, the tiger to the lamb shall yield, and war descend… — Writer Adin Ballou Philosopher Activist Copy Share Image
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
“All men are by nature equal, made of the same earth by one workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare… — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system,… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
“Sommige mensen lijken de wetten van nature in zich te hebben. Ze lezen geen boeken en hebben toch een mening, een overtuiging,… — Connie Palmen Copy Share Image
“To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image