You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“He never read a book but often thought about God; it was unavoidable, a matter of simplicity and awe. The starry sky,… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“I repeat: there is no place for monsters in civilized society. If such creatures roam the earth, they do so out on… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Way up in the mountains Sea level too far to be seen The clouds mask civilization below People replaced by a sea… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“What matters? Lives of the good and the great, the innocence of dogs, the cunning of cats, the elegance of nature, the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite,… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, that look not like the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience.… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable... Religion of the… — Owen H Lewis Copy Share Image
“But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“…the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon that Powell stumbled onto has a name: shifting baselines syndrome... Every generation of scientist accepts the oceans as it inherits… — Jon Mooallem Copy Share Image
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Silver” is what I called girls who were natural beauties but who also smoothed on a layer of pretty from a jar.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of mankind, are indeed sacred things; and if any public measure… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“I don't know what's going on in the world," he said. "Everything seemed so reasonable and scientific until I discovered my son… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that… — Anil Agarwal Copy Share Image
All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image