Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these… — Roel Reine Copy Share Image
One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was… — Charlie Munger 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
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Copy Share Image
Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting… — Rick Riordan 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
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea,… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't… — Carol Edgarian Copy Share Image
The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone,… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful… — Oscar Wilde 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
There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image