Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed… — John Muir Copy Share Image
And now, sis. Transportation for the Hunters, you say? Good timing. I was just about ready to roll." These demigods will also… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Fair Trade supports some of the most bio-diverse farming systems in the world. When you visit a Fair Trade coffee grower's fields,… — Miguel A. Altieri Copy Share Image
Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks… — Tomson Highway Copy Share Image
The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
'Tree Fu Tom' is a truly interactive programme because it is designed to help children get up off the sofa and physically… — Sophie Aldred Copy Share Image
We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy.… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more… — Brenda Strong 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
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
