“And then there are the cravings.. Oh, la! A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant,… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals… — Erik P. Eckholm Copy Share Image
Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures,… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit… — Pelagius Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I… — Tim Kennedy Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The thing is, industry plant is just a term for other artists and other people to use who just don't know what… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The EPA's [Clean Power Plan] is another example of Washington's lack of understanding when it comes to rural and Western energy issues.… — Ann Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline;… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image