Mother Earth Quotes - Page 6

• [last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

  Crowfoot

  Sunset, Native American, Firefly

  "Aging in the Modern World: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction". Book by ‎Clark Tibbitts, p. 222, 1957.

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• The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neatly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.

  Ian Anderson

  Mother, Cat, Naughty

  Interview with Gary Hyde, August 12, 1974.

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• We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Children, Working Together

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• No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in this together, my friends, the rich, the poor, the red, white, black, brown and yellow. We share responsibility for Mother Earth and those who live and breathe upon her ..never forget that.

  Leonard Peltier

  Inspirational, Mother, Religious

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• The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Lying, Heart, Earth Day

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• I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Mother, Running, Dream

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• Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

  Rene Dubos

  Destiny, Environmental, Strikes

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• Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Pain, Earth

  Source: progressive.org

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• All of us humans have myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore them, anymore than I can afford to neglect my precious wife--nor the sweet mother Earth that births and holds us all. Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.

  Alan Weisman

  Mother, Sweet, Simple

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• Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.

  Marilou Awiakta

  Mother, Hands, Law

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

  Sitting Bull

  Mother, Heart, Feet

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• Right now, our mother -- our mother -- all of our mothers, Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future. You can help us win the battle to clean up our air, our water, our land, to protect our forests, our oceans and our wildlife.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mother, Hurt, Ocean

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• Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Health, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• When we walk upon Mother Earth,
  we always plant our feet carefully
  because we know the faces of our future generations
  are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
  we never forget them.

  Oren Lyons

  Mother, Feet, Faces

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• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Mother, Lying, Science

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• The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Mother, Views, Names

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• The name Yunupingu means 'rock - rock that stands against time'. The name Yunupingu belonged to my grandad, like he was a hero in his time. It was passed down through the generations to my Father. It's a name that makes us understand who we are, where we're coming from and what our connections are to mother earth and the universe.

  Mandawuy Yunupingu

  Mother, Father, Hero

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• I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Mother, Feelings, Pieces

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Writing, Grandmother

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.55, University of Texas Press

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• Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to the new striving and suffering. And not merely "some day." Now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mother, Suffering, Earth

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• There's only three major elements. Air, land, which is your flesh and water, which is your blood. You're walking on a third of yourself. She's called Mother Earth. She gave birth to your ass. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, your maggot food ass going right back to her!

  Eddie Griffin

  Mother, Air, Dust

  "Eddie Griffin: Freedom of Speech". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Turtles remind us that the way to heaven is through the earth. In Mother Earth is all that we need. She will care for us, protect us, and nurture us, as long as we do the same for her. For that to happen, we must slow down and heighten our sensibilities. We must see the connection to all things. Just as the turtle cannot separate itself from its shell, neither can we separate ourselves from what we do to the Earth.

  Ted Andrews

  Mother, Turtles, Long

  Ted Andrews (2010). “Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small”, p.309, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Beauty, Mother, Peace

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• Mother Earth is very talented.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Earth, Talent

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

  John Muir

  Mother, Feet, Envy

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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