Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party.… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
A gift is like a seed; it is not an impressive thing. It is what can grow from the seed that is… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each… — David Abram Copy Share Image
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We keep the negative stuff because it's the negative stuff that's going to, you know, potentially kill us. That fin in the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father,… — Timothy F. Cahill Copy Share Image
O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
You have to risk to get ahead The person whos always hugging the tree trunk and never walking out onto the skinny… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders,… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Dogs help you to appreciate the world around you. They smell the ground so intensely. They look at the trees as though… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds,… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
The tree doesn't die, nor do I when you cut off a branch or a finger, we both heal so we don't… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When your breathing is easy and deep, your body works efficiently, and your mind settles. That doesn't mean that your balance (in… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The violets, and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light! The lilacs, where… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in… — Akio Toyoda Copy Share Image
My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
