The Earth Quotes
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.
Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.
The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.
Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.
No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.
In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.
Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.
If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.
The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.
Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor all with whom we share the Earth Walk in balance and beauty.
The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.
This is really just a rental home for me here on earth, my true home is up in Heaven, and my hope lies in that. I'm here to live a good life and get as many people as I can to go to Heaven with me
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.
Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.