Earth Quotes - Page 20

• We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Spring, Flower, Two

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• Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Lying, Snow, Valleys

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.28

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• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  Randy Bachman

  Wall, Example, Add

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• The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

  Bill Ayers

  Past, Half, World

  "Bill Ayers: The United States Is the Foremost Threat to World Peace Today". Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, en.farsnews.com. December 06, 2014.

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• Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

  Marquis de Sade

  Strong, Evil, Perfect

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• Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Inspirational, Joy, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.179

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• Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Healing, Heart

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.203, The Floating Press

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• But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Lying, Flower, Light

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• He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Men, Rivers

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• In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Reading, Home, Moon

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• Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mean, Wealth, Planets

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• Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

  George Monbiot

  Opposites, Support, Progress

  "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.

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• When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile

  Ronald J. Garan, Jr.

  Beautiful, Breathing, Space

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• Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs of even small population increases. Action is urgently required on both fronts to protect our life on earth

  Phil Harding

  Energy, Population, Needs

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• Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is suffering. It is suffering from poor development, in the North as in the South, and we are indifferent. The Earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible. It is time now to open our eyes

  Jacques Chirac

  Eye, House, Humanity

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• I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead.

  James Lovelock

  Lying, Book, Understanding

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• If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  "When a Thought of War Comes, Oppose It By a Stronger Thought of Peace: Baha’i Inspiration Amidst Disunity" by Homa Sabet Tavangar, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Years, Survival

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• 'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Opportunity, Challenges

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• No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Generations, Conservative, Lease

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance - as Paul affirms in the magnificent cosmic declaration of Colossians 1:15-20. So wherever we go in his name, we are walking on his property. There is not an inch of the planet that does not belong to Christ. Mission then is an authorized activity carried out by tenants on the instructions of the owner of the property.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Jesus, Names, Doe

  Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.403, InterVarsity Press

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• Christians should seek the best information available about the earth over which we have been appointed stewards.

  Douglas J. Moo

  Christian, Information, Stewardship

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• To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Funeral, Choices, Body

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• If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is a 'sentient being', would it not be reasonable to expect that if it loses one-third of its trees and vegetable covering, it will also die?

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Men, Vegetables, Tree

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• Wonder is the salt of the earth.

  M. C. Escher

  Salt, Wonder, Awe

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