All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either… — Marshall Savage Copy Share Image
“When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm a country boy, and out in the old country, all we do is bale straws of hay, and next thing you… — Mason Ramsey Copy Share Image
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“There are things in the wood, things you wouldn't expect. There's a laugh behind a tree when nobody's around to make it.… — Rebecca Hahn Copy Share Image
“HAPPINESS I ASKED the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering,… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say,… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
“Morty trusted trees far more than he did people. 'You know what a tree can and cannot give you,' he said in… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Best player? For me, it's Paul Scholes. He'll do ridiculous things in training like say, “You see that tree over there?” -… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a… — DeVon Franklin Copy Share Image
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Take this single tree. They could cut it down and make half of it into an incense tray, decorate it with lacquer… — Issai Chozanshi Copy Share Image
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
