Curious Quote by Hosea Ballou

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the…

— Anonymous

What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.

— Pablo Neruda

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

— William Godwin

The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of…

— Leonardo Boff

In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation.

— Steven Rinella

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than…

— John Lubbock

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the…

— Iain Pears

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world…

— John Hope Franklin

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with…

— Petrarch

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith…

— Mariella Frostrup

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

— Deborah Tall