It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 Category: Environment
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. – Bill Vaughn Category: Environment
How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?… Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore. – Anonymous Wintu Woman Category: Environment
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. – Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Category: Effort
Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble. – Johann von Goethe Category: Weakness
When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. – Charles Schumer Category: Success
