If he throws like he did last year and last Monday against LaPorte with his competitive nature and the great stuff that he has we are going to be in every game he throws for...

Death is a debt to Nature dueWhich we have paid and so must you.

It represents a misreading of the nature of the problem. When we make these forces stronger, we make the underlying problem worse, not better. We’re throwing gas on the political fire.

Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there’s nothing to fear.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost.

Sometimes, when we are far from clocks and schedules, we can still recapture a lost sense of place-based time. On a relaxing camping trip or a long day outdoors, perhaps, we can slip back into...

Long Sight In AgeThey say eyes clear with age, As dew clarifies air To sharpen evenings, As if time put an edge Round the last shape of things To show them there; The many-levelled trees,...

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

If you are only good to your loved ones, it doesn’t make you a good person.

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who ‘knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find...

An environment-based education movement–at all levels of education–will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

No sun—no moon! No morn—no noon—No dawn— No sky—no earthly view— No distance looking blue—No road—no street—no “t’other side the way”— No end to any Row— No indications where the Crescents go— No top to...

Suppose after all that death does end all. Next to eternal joy, next to being forever with those we love and those who have loved us, next to that, is to be wrapt in the...

If politicians and business leaders become “protectors of creation” nature shall be saved.

Invite TranquilityThe sea,–Something to look atWhen we are angry.

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good...

Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the religious institutions. This split in public values produced or was accompanied by, as...

McKay had worn the wings in the world war with honor, flying first with the French and later with his own country’s forces. And as a bird loves the trees, so did McKay love them....

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let...

Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it – and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness;...

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

The ocean-blue bowl won’t refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back from the gaping earth-wounds.There will still come water, chill wind and happy goosebumps, and in the utmost corners of oaks, leaves laughing.

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

The language of nature is silence.

Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts – a sense of wonder.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter of each gigantic cell trailed a continuous loop of these bright green dots....

What is 34 in Reality, anyway?

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

He gets away with it because he’s strong.”This is the story of mankind.”I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.”Yes. But then I read the newspaper.

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It’s not the popular ideal, it is the wizard’s love – the force that upholds life...

Man’s collective mastery of nature— even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion— can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it...

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.

The human soul is complex. So is Nature (or life, if you prefer). Creating a perfect interface between the two results in a balance that one can recognize in an individual as a state of...

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, — unique,...

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell...

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Some people think nature is their God. I’d like to apologize to all those people for pissing on their religion.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and...

Every blade in the field – Every leaf in the forest – lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

There is a low mist in the woods—It is a good day to study lichens.