I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after… — Anne Cassidy Copy Share Image
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The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Every instance since the beginning of time has been a coincidence: A leaf in a tree embodies the combined efforts of the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
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The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
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True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive… — George Aiken Copy Share Image
The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily… — Sheldon F. Child Copy Share Image
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl….… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
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![“I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.” quote by Marcia Gay Harden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/marcia-gay-harden-8656_50th-birthday_i-celebrated-my-50th-birthday-by-throwin_568039.jpg)
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