Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“We began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“there are sicknesses that walk in darkness, and there are exterminating angels who fly wrapt up in the curtains of immateriality and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth… — Theodosia Garrison Copy Share Image
“I have many lovers. Where ever I look, I find them. There is no place devoid of them. They are everywhere: In… — Ansul Noor Copy Share Image
“Intellectual understanding and rational knowledge are by nature spiritual obstructions caused by arbitrary confirmation and denial...The essence of intellectual understanding and rational… — Shang Yang-tzu Copy Share Image
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“In the sixties, the Commune emerged as a riposte to the nuclear family. This was an autonomic re-creation of not only preindustrial,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“We should therefore, with grace and optimism, embrace NOMA's tough-minded demand: Acknowledge the personal character of these human struggles about morals and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“[But] just as unseen worlds unfold to those who read a book, so worlds hidden to hurried sight unfold to those who… — Priscilla Stuckey Copy Share Image
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I love how (last one, I swear) when we watched The Forces of Nature and Sandra Bullock walked away in the end… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
“I do whatever pleases me, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. As I have… — Zhang Yun Copy Share Image
“It seems to be one of Nature’s laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize… — Terry Winograd Copy Share Image
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“On a personal level, I chose not to look at the eclipse but rather sat outside during it and listened and appreciated… — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
“For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
“For not the revelation of God, but the expounders of that revelation, are responsible for the diversities of Christendom: the fault rests… — G.H. Pember Copy Share Image
“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster.… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
“Faith gives man a peculiar sense of his own dignity … The believer finds himself distinguished above other men, exalted above natural… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“the center of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity, there’s an exhibit embedded in the floor. The exhibit is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“The hedges - yes, the hedges, the very synonym of Merry England - are yet there, and long may they remain. Without… — Jefferies Richard 1848-1887 Copy Share Image
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