Earth Quotes - Page 37

• Imagination rules the earth

  Albert Einstein

  Imagination

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• I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Government, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.437

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• Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.

  Haim Harari

  Mass Destruction, Israel, People

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• When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel, Iran, President

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• Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let all the wealth of the earth come to your feet, or let you be made the poorest on earth. Let death come this moment or hundreds of years hence. Swerve not from the path you have taken. All good thoughts are immortal and go to make Buddhas and Christs.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Taken, Years

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• After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Stars, Attitude, Sunset

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• Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by way of supposition, and not for that he thought so in deede: who affirmeth that the earth turneth about, and that the sunne standeth still in the midst of the heauens, by help of which false supposition he hath made truer demonstrations of the motions and reuolutions of the celestiall Spheares, than euer were made before. . . .

  Thomas Blundeville

  World, Copernicus, Way

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• My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind for bids to crave.

  Edward Dyer

  Joy, Mind, Want

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• The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase of chemical elements in the environment.

  Robert O. Becker

  Phones, Elements, Fields

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• Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when I feel as though there is nothing we can do for elephants - I feel that the only good I am doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth.

  Roland Smith

  Animal, Elephants, Dinosaurs

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• And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

  Lucretius

  Science, Erosion, Rocks

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Recovery, Men, Giving Love

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• Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Rain, Men, Agriculture

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• We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Growth, Flesh, Might

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.395, GENERAL PRESS

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• Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

  Jacques Prevert

  Beauty, Art, Father

  'Pater Noster'

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• The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Cutting, Power, Hands

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• Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.

  Alfred Kazin

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Snakes, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

  William Vogt

  Philosophy, Journey, Ideas

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• Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Journey, Hiking

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• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  Vernor Vinge

  Change, Paper, Arguing

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• In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

  Lytton Strachey

  Character, Quality, Genius

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.44, Delphi Classics

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• I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

  Waylon Jennings

  Mean, Destiny, Thinking

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• Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Equality, Liberty, Use

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