Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
It is not a good idea, either, to attach material such as Krystal Flash or Flashabou, then trim all strands at one… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that… — William Mulholland Copy Share Image
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy .… — William James Copy Share Image
When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final… — Alexander Blok Copy Share Image
The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“The late American golfing coach and writer, Harvey Penick, held that any who played golf was his friend – in the politer… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
Cerise ran through the course in her mind. “Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path.” She paused,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
