We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature.… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“I feel the sheer unfathomable marvel that is this strange life we have, here on earth, the seven billion of us, clustered… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“When the glory of God is the treasure of our lives, we will not lay up treasures on earth, but spend them… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“By nature and by training this woman was all for conservation of life. She had been brought up in rather a strict… — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I still experience this chill today when a song or chant touches some place inside my body that my mind cannot name...… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“They’d made the bricks from the local earth, processed through some of the mining equipment and fired in a kiln powered by… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. You don't really worship spirit, because you are also spirit,… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways… — Malcolm Wells Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
“I walk the sand alone, and feel it stirring as I roam, upon this breathing earth, where wave on wave begins new… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
“Ancient Egypt is possibly one of the clearest-cut cases of the iron law of nature which says that if a society which… — Arthur Kemp Copy Share Image
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of… — Margo MacDonald Copy Share Image
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong.… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature… — John Williams Copy Share Image