563 quotes found
“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It d...”
“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.”
“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. ...”
“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”
“If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natur...”
“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest - the cleared fields...”
“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 ac...”
“In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me, I'm sure I wouldn't have had the imagination or courage to do mo...”
“I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, th...”
“Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.”
“There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.”
“Do you know how I picture God myself?" he said. "As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as one single fish would deposit its spawn in the se...”
“A poem is a line between any two points in creation.”
“Every living creature breathes.”
“Divinity encompasses all life forms.”
“God is constantly Creating, Experiencing, Witnessing, De-constructing, and Expanding. God is everything and everyone thats the realm where we dont exist at all. Thats the realm where theres none, ...”
“The love of nature is the love for the Creator.”
“That its rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. But at the same time we are also created. In the Koran, Allah asks the he...”
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
