Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole… — Luis de Camoes Copy Share Image
The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of… — John Knowles 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
