The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
“Wow,” Russel said. “That goes against nature, man. Eating dead, bloody animals is up there with sex: you gotta have it or… — Milly Taiden Copy Share Image
“He was immaculately dressed, without trying. He dressed that way by nature - which meant that he had money - and I… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I’m a writer; I can float for hours on a word like “amethyst” or “broom” or the way so many words sound… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen;… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the… — Sharon Wall Copy Share Image
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make… — Geoff Hamilton Copy Share Image
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You know on those nature shows when the cute little meerkat is strolling along on its four cute little meerkat legs to… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“Know me, Amber. I am Amelia Hoffman, and that," I said emphatically, gesturing towards them, "is my family. And if you or… — Elizabeth Sharp Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?.. It is if you become a part of nature. You suppress your presence… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life," the doctor said. "Now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon there… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“We might not be able to know what reality is about, but we can’t but be aware of the explicitness of facts.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Q: Where and when do you do your writing? A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the non-profit in Uganda, my… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“Recognize things when they are at their best, in their season, and know how to enjoy them then. The works of nature… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
“A woman who might have been a good mother and a good grandmother, had not a quirk of nature put her in… — Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson Copy Share Image
“[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image