Earth Quotes - Page 97

The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.

My favorite colors come from the shades of local earth. Dig in the ground and you'll find so many layers of color-amazing yellows, sand, browns, black, beige.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man ... it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but ... there is no such thing as Death at all.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

I really love Charlize Theron. I've never met her before, but she seems really down-to-earth in interviews, really intelligent and funny and cool - and she's just this glorious goddess who holds herself with such confidence.

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.