Earth Quotes - Page 11

• Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

  Henry Beston

  Love, Sea, Valleys

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

  Hippolyte Taine

  Space, Spheres, Sand

  Hippolyte Taine (1876). “The Modern Régime”

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• The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Would Be, World, Duchess

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.71, Vintage

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• Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

  Mourning Dove

  Native American, Marijuana, Purpose

  Mourning Dove (1994). “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography”, p.69, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

  Humanity, Brotherhood, Action

  Lewis Mumford (1954). “In the Name of Sanity”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.

  Ferdinand Magellan

  Moon, Shadow, Church

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• You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Cake, Able

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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• The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

  Gilbert Adair

  Blessed, Feet, Giving

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Life, Stress, Lying

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Love, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Change, Impact, Environmental

  "Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come". Rajendra K. Pachauri's speech at the news conference during the presentation of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Yokohama, Japan, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has.

  Lucie Arnaz

  Funny, Laughter, Stress

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• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Our World, Understanding

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Persistence, Long

  "Toward an Ecological Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1980.

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• The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

  Rick Rubin

  Art, Nature, Creativity

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• Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her.

  Peter Lik

  Photography, Mother, Nature

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• We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.

  Patrick Dodson

  Inspirational, Change, Future

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• You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

  Wovoka

  Mother, Native American, Cutting

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• Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.

  William McDonough

  Nature, Taken, Animal

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.16, Macmillan

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• There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Influence And Power, Pakistan, Quaid Azam

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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• Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sky, Earth Day

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Autumn, Shoes

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

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• We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

  William Anders

  Moon, Space, Earth Day

  "The mysteries of sleepwalking and night fears are not solved", www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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