George Eliot Quotes About Earth

• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Childhood, Earth

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

• The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Night, Light

  "Golden Gleams of Thought from the Words of Leading Orators, Divines, Philosophers, Statesmen and Poets". Book by S. Pollock Linn, 1881.

• Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

  George Eliot

  Rivers, Waiting, Feelings

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.152, London

• And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch

  George Eliot

  Dream, Names, Feelings

• A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Home, Men

  "Daniel Deronda".

• Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Autumn, Air

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

  George Eliot

  Time, Spring, Flower

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.49, George Eliot

• She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

  George Eliot

  Hardship, Earth, Want

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.331, George Eliot

• The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Fall, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.360, 谷月社

• A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Earth

  George Eliot (2005). “Silas Marner”, p.6, Collector's Library

• Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

  George Eliot

  Running, Air, Breathing

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.490, Wordsworth Editions

• It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

• Two angels guide
  The path of man, both aged and yet young.
  As angels are, ripening through endless years,
  On one he leans: some call her Memory,
  And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
  With deep mysterious accords: the other,
  Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams
  A light divine and searching on the earth,
  Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,
  Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,
  Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
  Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
  But for Tradition; we walk evermore
  To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Eye

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2724, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

• Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Earth, Fit

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.317

• How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Mind, Earth

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2966, Delphi Classics

• The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Dew, Earth

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.315

• We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

  George Eliot

  Love, Mother, Looks

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.177

• In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Mind, Growth

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.80

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