Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peace Pilgrim

If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God!

Penelope Keith

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Peter Coyote

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Rabindranath Tagore

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

Rabindranath Tagore

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

Rabindranath Tagore

For man is by nature an artist.

Rabindranath Tagore

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

Hamlin Garland

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Hamlin Garland

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Hamlin Garland

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

Gustave Flaubert

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

John Dryden

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

John Dryden

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

John Dryden

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

John Dryden

Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

John Dryden

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

John Lubbock

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

John Locke

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Katharine Graham

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. -Vincent Van Gogh A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Joseph Conrad

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph de Maistre

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.

Leonard Cohen

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

John Keats

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.

Joseph Priestley

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

Jules Renard

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Karl Kraus

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

Karl Lagerfeld

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.