All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“You are immortal; you’ve existed for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Must like the rest of us on the surface, he had an underlying obliging and considerate strain which barred him from being… — john knowles Copy Share Image
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Definitions get you into that time trap, and I'm very much more process-focused. Take Lucy, for example. Lucy is famous largely because… — Don Ihde Copy Share Image
All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled… — Rex Ingamells Copy Share Image
It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“The dark and the snow are too thick for him to see beyond the first trees. He’s been in there before at… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. "The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hit my knees every morning and every night to give thanks for being alive and all the blessings I have. And… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. You really can't… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I never did understand why the tree was still happy at the end. The little boy used her until she was nothing… — Allison Rivers Copy Share Image
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
