If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“My trees, they said, you can’t eat them apples. My stream, you can’t fish here. My wood, you’re not t’ hunt. My… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“And so Psalm 121 says no. It rejects a worship of nature, a religion of stars and flowers, a religion that makes… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Some call ships, infantry or horsemen The greatest beauty earth can offer; I say it is whatever a person Most lusts after.… — Sappho Copy Share Image
If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“But how did you become devoted to the King who had done all this?’ Sudarshana asks. When did this change of feeling… — Ray Monk Copy Share Image
“Follow Your Passion” Is Terrible Advice “I think it misconstrues the nature of finding a satisfying career and satisfying job, where the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“But to return to thy question, we consider our life here on earth to be a sacrament, lived in the light of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Once all come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a… — Harvey Spencer Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you are depressed you are not at peace. You are not at peace because you are not using your creative potential.… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“I lay on her bed with my arms wrapped around her, wondering how on earth we'd managed to end up like this.… — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“There was such a repose and quiet here at this hour, as if the very hill-sides were enjoying the scene, and as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The snow has not yet left the earth, but spring is already asking to enter your heart. If you have ever recovered… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving — on the earth the trees, in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can,… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“Weight causes things on earth to fall--to remain grounded. What if the weight of sin holds the same purpose as physical weight?… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one… — Extract from Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?" "Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image