Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park,… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development…… — Sunderlal Bahuguna Copy Share Image
We realize the indivisibility of the earth - its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals - and respect it collectively… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements:… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. Theres evidence of water on Mars and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. Not a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years.… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction… — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image