I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six… — Shirley Bassey Copy Share Image
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go.… — Kabir Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses,… — Joseph DeRisi Copy Share Image
If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Give your heart,but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.And stand together,yet not too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm husband hunting. Now, I know all the men are going to be gay but at this point, I need a new… — Judy Tenuta Copy Share Image
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They… — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; —… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
