“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic… — John Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
My whole interest is, how do you use evolution as an innovation engine? How does evolution solve new problems that life faces?… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid,… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Ti's of thee to fall from the deep blue sky into my heart is an endless pit of sorrow to climb back… — Sarah Hughes Copy Share Image
For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
“You cannot force a person to see you as someone they want to open up to; you cannot force a person to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
“Life is like that.” He flipped through a few more limp pages. “You collect things as you go—the things you think are… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you call them a sin against nature again, I will end you." Ethan's hand was on his dagger's hilt. "Look who's… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“So the will's desire for death is not a desire for nonexistence, but a desire for peace. When someone wrongly believes that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
As we stand at the edge of the horizon of Gods glory being revealed upon the earth the greatest need continues to… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
“You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Although nature has proven season in and season out that if the thing that is planted bears at all, it will yield… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Eggs possess an elemental power. Their outer shell is earth. Their white is water. The membrane that lines the shell is air,… — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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