The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The gatherd storme is rype; the bigge drops falle;The forswat meadowes smethe, and drenche the raine;The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall,And… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We are all part of the life cycle. Like a seed we are born, we sprout, we grow, we mature and decay,… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
Intentions are a lot like seeds. You shove them into the ground, and every once in awhile, you water them. Largely, the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries,… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background…Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive.… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food… — Rajiv Shah Copy Share Image
Once when I was cooking I burned my arm with scalding water. I went to the Emergency Room of the Hospital. When… — Betty Lynn Copy Share Image
I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want… — Stirling Moss Copy Share Image
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Scientists say over the next hundred years, the coast of California will sink almost five feet. So the presidential candidates need to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The really valuable thing about documenting coral bleaching is that it is this straight, very direct visual indicator of how hot the… — Jeff Orlowski Copy Share Image
The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood… — Kabir Copy Share Image
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“To consider water on any scale was to confront a boundless repetition of small events. There were the tiny wonders: rain drops,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
