Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. ~John Muir
The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer. ~Henry Clay
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ~Arthur C. Clarke
If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow. ~Terri Guillemets
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ~Edna Ferber
Sewing mends the soul. ~Author Unknown
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving. ~O. Henry, Heart of the West, 1907
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard
I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body. ~Dave Barry
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. ~Emily Dickinson
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. ~Henry David Thoreau, journal, 5 January 1856
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. ~Native American Wisdom
Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. ~Henry David Thoreau
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story - especially when you're not sure which half they know. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. ~George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. ~Gloria Steinem
There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn. ~Paul Clitheroe
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. ~George Bernard Shaw
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. ~Sigmund Freud
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ~Bill Vaughan
New York, the nation's thyroid gland. ~Christopher Morley, Shore Leave
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
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