We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Parenting as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power entails lower status less power and less control of resources than paid work.

Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills parenting cooking elaborate meals purchasing a grown-up bed jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively from a distance and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world and at myself from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

A good face they say is a letter of recommendation. O Nature Nature why art thou so dishonest as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

Save for the wild force of Nature nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

To me the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

God is each truly and exalted thing therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself but in so doing he identifies himself with people - that is people everywhere not for the purpose of taking them apart but simply revealing their true nature.

I think that in today's world by nature we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

The world is too much with us late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape my real world.

The snow itself is lonely or if you prefer self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.