Earth Quotes - Page 25

• I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Glowing, Dust

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Firsts, Tvs

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. June 23, 2003.

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• Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Agriculture, People, Calling

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• 'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong, Real, Life Lesson

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• Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.

  Wendell Berry

  Sleep, Eye, Heart

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.180, Counterpoint Press

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• The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

  Chief Seattle

  Beautiful, Death, Country

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

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• You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Thinking, Blue

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• If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

  John Milton

  Failure, Pillars, Failing

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”, p.86

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• And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Blue, Sky, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.96, 1st World Publishing

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• We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Fashion, Iron, Machines

  Clemente Orozco V., José Clemente Orozco (2004). “José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work”, p.5, University of Texas Press

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• As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Mind, Substance, Body

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• Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

  Georges Cuvier

  Marine, Animal, Revolution

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• God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!

  Rick Warren

  Want, Made

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 13, 2011

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• Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.

  Sitting Bull

  Mother, Heart, Feet

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• There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Unconditional Love, Heaven, Greater Power

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• How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Space, Mind

  "Landmark US library set to close" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

  Robert M. Fresco

  Ocean, Sky, Depth

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• All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

  Joseph Campbell

  Beautiful, Views, Broken

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• Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Bringing Peace

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 20, 2012

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• A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

  Richard Aldington

  Common Sense, Paradise, Littles

  Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

  Fredric Brown

  Men, Doors, Horror Stories

  "From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown".

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• A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fire, Rocks, Sky

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• Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Mean, Two

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• The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Wind, Sea, Dancing

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