Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. —Charlotte Whitton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love the giver more than the gift. —Brigham Young More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Things are beautiful if you love them. —Jean Anouilh More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? —Lily Tomlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature only knows one thing, and that's the present. Present, present, eternal present, like a big, huge, giant wave — colossal, bright, and beautiful, full of life and death, climbing into the sky, standing in the seas. —Saul Bellow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. . . . What is new is only new to us. —Pearl S. Buck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you really believe that humans invented the wheel out of their big brains alone, or fire, or baskets, or tools? Stones rolled downhill; bolts of fire shot from the sky and out of the earth; birds wove and probed and pounded, as did apes and elephants. The sciences that master nature were taught by nature how it could be mastered. —James Hillman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion, or challenge the ideology of a violet. —Hal Borland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces. —Rachel Carson More about this quote Tags: awareness force creation nature control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the waters, which we assume have no function except to turn turbines, float barges, and carry off sewage. Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate whole communities without batting an eye. Certainly not the animals, of which we have already extirpated many of the largest and most beautiful species. —Aldo Leopold More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions. . . . Mud pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, —Charles Dudley Warner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow cycles of nature, is a help. —May Sarton More about this quote Tags: patience nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My idea of being an outdoorsman is pulling the shade up on my window. After a few glasses of wine, I may even open the window, but never all the way. —John DeBellis More about this quote Tags: nature outdoors wine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The powerful resonance of wilderness in my own mind — never having seen a wilderness or really understood what one was until I was in my twenties — leads me to suspect there is some kind of genetic circuit that lights up when a suburban animal is set down before a virgin forest. —David Rains Wallace More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email