According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks,… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a… — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“By now, at the end of a sloping alley, we had reached the shores of a vast marsh. Some unknown quality in… — R. Murray Gilchrist Copy Share Image
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford… — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Mike Forsberg's images give us bright openings onto a world. . . . Here on the Great Plains both people and trees… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It's simply a reality as natural as the one of a… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“Nothing comes as an accomplishment instantly. Success does not come overnight. Patience is the key! Grow up and be the tree; but… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow,… — Chris Baines Copy Share Image
Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a yule log, holly or tree. It is more than natural good cheer and… — Francis Spellman Copy Share Image
![“At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.” quote by Mohammed Dib](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/mohammed-dib-57734_all-that-remains_at-present-in-the-desert-an-exasperating_2311683.jpg)
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