“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy… — Henry Gantt Copy Share Image
“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted… — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we… — Nina George Copy Share Image
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I love essential oils - there's one for every problem. It's kind of like nature's answers for what to put on your… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
“This is the feeling that I call ‘ontological rootedness’ – ontology being that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and… — Simon May Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“humans believed that the earth was flat and ships venturing across the seas risked sailing off the edge. However, when we proved… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I do believe that the U.K. over the years has given up a tremendous amount of sovereignty. The bureaucratic nature of the… — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation.… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although… — John Keats Copy Share Image
That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Houses, gardens, and people were transfigured into musical sounds, all that was solid seemed to be transfigured into soul and into gentleness.… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I must warn you at the outset that I'm not at my best conversing with little girls," he announced. I bit my… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Who robbed the woods, The trusting woods? The unsuspecting trees Brought out their burrs and mosses His fantasy to please. He scanned… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me, not for the first time, that Lili's world was not so different from my dioramas, or even from… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
We've been in this dream and now we wake up and start remembering the fullness of ourselves, our higher selves, our sacred… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“Man’s conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
“But to Ezail, gifted with acceptance, it was only another facet of the riotous marvel of the earth. For all was marvelous… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy… Spiritual life, therefore, is… — John H. Dietrich Copy Share Image
“Logic, according to the conception here formed of it, has no concern with the nature of the act of judging or believing;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image