Earth Quotes - Page 75

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.

Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways.

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion.