The Earth Quotes
War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.
Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.
The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.
Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.
Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.
Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.
The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.
I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.
I believe when I leave this Earth because I love the Lord, I am going straight to heaven.
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.
O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -
I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.
Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.
The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.
It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.
We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.
After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.
If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.
