Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.
Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
There is something endearing about people who give themselves up completely to their faith. But there is likewise something frightening about such a totality, which also is a feature of Islam.
Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.
I read all of the books by Tolkien, including 'The Hobbit,' when I was in my twenties, and his deep love of nature and all things green resonates deeply with me.
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider." [ ]
