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- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As… — Andrew Bernstein
- Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary… — Mark Twain
- Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our… — Hugh Prather
- Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have… — Michel de Montaigne
- It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming… — Theodor Herzl
- Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into… — Helen Garner
- How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though… — Osbert Sitwell
- The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being.… — Tertullian
- Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and… — David G. McAfee
- I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation,… — Arthur Ashe
- We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell… — John Steinbeck