Earth Quotes - Page 27

• Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.

  Tom Brokaw

  Buddhist, Needs, Soup

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• In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.

  Rene Daumal

  Men, Sky, Mountain

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• It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

  Helen Caldicott

  Nature, Clue, Should

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and Updated)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.

  David Malouf

  Nature, Night, Smell

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House

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• I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

  Densey Clyne

  Nature, Believe, Ocean

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• There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.

  Stella Reid

  Nature, Mean, Eye

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• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Children, Believe

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• The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury them, only to have them rise to meet you in sleep. Mostly the scenes are familiar, but sometimes everything is strange, the people unknown.

  Tim Winton

  Dream, Art, Sleep

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

  Liv Ullmann

  Believe, Passion, Order

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• Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

  Monique Wittig

  Peace, Together, Honey

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• Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Science, Men, Long

  George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.35, New York : C. Scribner

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• It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Heaven, Sunrise, Progress

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• You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.

  Peter Cundall

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Gratitude, Father

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Technology, Air, Sea

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Intelligent, Generations, National Parks

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

  Stephen Hawking

  Population, Use, Growing

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Life Is, Meant To Be

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• The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

  Randy Alcorn

  Home, Giving, Illusion

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• Walk to the well.
  Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
  circling what they love.
  Whatever circles comes from the center.

  Rumi

  Moon, Circles, Walks

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.343, Penguin UK

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• The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

  Herb Caen

  Heaven, May, Location

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• The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.

  Carl Sagan

  Years, Together, Atoms

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 5: "Blues For a Red Planet", 1990.

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• There are no soul mates. Not in the traditional sense, at least. In my 20s someone told me that each person has not one but 30 soul mates walking the earth. (“Yes,” said a colleague, when I informed him of this, “and I’m trying to sleep with all of them.”) In fact, “soul mate” isn’t a pre-existing condition. It’s an earned title. They’re made over time.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Sleep, Soul, Trying

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• Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.

  Rod Serling

  Ozone, Air, Ideas

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• When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.

  Leon Brown

  Pain, Worry, Negative

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