Earth Quotes - Page 85
Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.
Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925
Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.343, Penguin UK
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Complete in One Volume”, p.430
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2154, Library of Alexandria
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.
Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
1850 Representative Men,'Uses of Great Men'.
Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.41
No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.
"Song: 'Constant Sorrow'". 1951.