Brushes Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We may mount from this dull Earth; and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery…

— Christiaan Huygens

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists…

— Kevin Hearne

How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those…

— Charles Darwin

“The land of opportunities that appeared greener when they were on the other side of the world deceptively veiled the harsh terrains which could…

— Neetha Joseph

“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least was real…

— John Steinbeck

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces…

— Erich Fromm

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

— Herbert Harold Read

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and…

— Gifford Pinchot

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed,…

— Henry David Thoreau