Earth Quotes - Page 21

• Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

  Chad Harbach

  Life, Believe, World Issues

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• The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Life, Axes, People

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

  Paracelsus

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

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• Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like a glowing white planet coming into view. A reverse eclipse. And you watch with your eyes closed. The white planet is half exposed, it grips your heart in its light and seems to be pulling you forward and now you feel that you are falling. You are awake but dreaming. "The earth is not beautiful but the universe is," you say.

  Patrick deWitt

  Beautiful, Dream, Pain

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• A person is not earth, not water,
  Not fire, not wind, not space,
  Not consciousness, and not all of them.
  What person is there other than these?

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Fire, Wind, Space

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• Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.... The two propositions: "The earth turns round" and "it is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round" have the same meaning; there is nothing more in the one than in the other.

  Henri Poincare

  Moving, Math, Two

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• Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things.

  Zhuangzi

  Mirrors, Water, Heaven

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• I believe everyone who breathes air on this earth, regardless of their job or their bank account, must give back more than just carbon dioxide.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Jobs, Believe, Air

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• If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

  Jonas Salk

  Insects, Humans, Ifs

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• To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

  Chief Seattle

  Web Of Life, Harm, Contempt

  Seattle (Chief), Johhny Mohawk (1984*). “Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"”

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• The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Home, Character

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
  None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

  Bob Dylan

  Wine, Lines, Drink

  Song: All Along The Watchtower, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

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  A world I dream where black or white,
  Whatever race you be,
  Will share the bounties of the Earth
  And every man is free.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Men, Race

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.259, University of Missouri Press

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• It doesn't really matter how rich you are, we're all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.

  Louie Giglio

  Matter, Rich, Lord

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• When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Heaven, Mouths

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.101

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• Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Needs, Firsts, Kind

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• Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Sweet, Animal, Color

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• No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Technology, Racism

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• Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, People, Scorn

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Perception, Spirit, Fragrance

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• Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

  Karl Marx

  Mother, Father, Use

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.227, Hackett Publishing

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• The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification.

  Hugh Miller

  Agency, Rocks, Sea

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.297

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• Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

  Huston Smith

  Religion, Transformation, Used

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.225, Univ of California Press

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• Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

  Rumi

  Shining, Joy, Skins

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• Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

  John Cleese

  Strong, Children, Years

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