Alice Walker Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  Alice Walker

  Life, Art, Book

• Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

  Alice Walker

  People, Earth, Saved

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.241, New Press, The

• If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  Alice Walker

  Art, Black History, Earth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?

  Alice Walker

  Laughter, Mistake, Dark

  Alice Walker (2011). “By the Light of My Father's Smile”, p.167, Hachette UK

• As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
  As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

  Alice Walker

  Giving Up, Spring, Flower

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.194, The New Press

• How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

  Alice Walker

  Impact, Time On Earth, World

• Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Forever, Earth

• I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Earth Day, Damage

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.256, Hachette UK

• If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

  Alice Walker

  Stars, Writing, Moon

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.85, The New Press

• We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Eye, Reality

• It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

  Alice Walker

  Country, Land, Earth

• I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Thinking, Earth

  Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

• ...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Ideas, Generosity

• As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

  Alice Walker

  Spring, Years, Long

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.194, The New Press

• Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

  Alice Walker

  Country, Mean, House

• But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

  Alice Walker

  Struggle, Animal, Justice

• I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

  Alice Walker

  Buddhist, Believe, Free Spirit

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

• Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

  Alice Walker

  Evil, Forgiving, Done

• The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

  Alice Walker

  Blow, Thinking, Wind

  Source: electronicintifada.net

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

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Earth Day, Given

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.256, Hachette UK

• HELPED are those whose ever act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child.

  Alice Walker

  Prayer, Children, Animal

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

• One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

  Alice Walker

  Wisdom, Hair, Understanding

• Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

  Alice Walker

  Laughter, Suffering, Tears

• Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

  Alice Walker

  Change, White, Collaboration

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.275, Hachette UK

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Beautiful, Earth, Care

  "'Democratic Womanism': Poet and Activist Alice Walker on Women Rising, Obama and the 2012 Election". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 28, 2012.

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