There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The Holy Trinity doesn't need our permission to carry on in their endlessly resourceful work of making all things new. That we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy.... There is a… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why… — John Piper Copy Share Image
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
