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Quotes About Earth

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
~ Edward Hoagland
Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history is our long-term history. Despite all our fantasies and pretensions, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~ Edward Steichen
November's days are thirty: November's earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.
~ Edward Thomas
Today I think Only with scents,—scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field... It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth...
~ Edward Thomas
Virtue is God over the world. Vice is the world over God
~ Edward Weiss
Giving life 'purpose' is anthropomorphism. It is our own desire for ends or completion. The door is already open. There is nothing to complete, only to know. Heaven on Earth is here.
~ Edward Weiss
Find your freedom in God, and have your heaven on Earth
~ Edward Weiss
The color of the ground was in him, the red earth,The smack and tang of elemental things.
~ Edwin Markham
Value always involves some kind of reference to the activities of persons.' The process of human life on the earth is not ruled by disembodied values but by the personalities and doings and sayings of unique individual men and women.
~ Edwyn Bevan
Peace is impossible in the presence of evil-minded and its forces on earth.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Everything was moving: the sea of fire under the crust of the earth, and the furnaces of the stars, and the planets, and the universes, and the light within the darkness and the silence in the cold.
~ Elena Ferrante
Imagine that the lines an actress reads are a river that runs calmly along the surface of the earth. Then imagine that the actress are the earth, and that under the earth is another river, a wilder one whose current leaps in the opposite direction, whose roar is muted. Every time the actress speaks her lines, she must offer a glimpse of the river that runs beneath: the mysterious churn of her consciousness, the lawlessness of a person's doubts or desires.
~ Elena Ferrante
And right away here comes a whole concrete wall of snow, this popular, but inconspicuous (once arrived, it simply lies around everywhere) piece of sports equipment that falls down to earth around the clock and no one, apart from the athletes, really pays attention, unless they haven't got winter tires fitted yet. And this snow is suddenly like stone, like concrete, which has a stomach ache and thus must empty itself over everything.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN to Nearside you'll certainly know of the Overview Effect— there are whole towers, observation decks and hotels named after it. The Overview Effect is what happens when a human being surveys Earth from a sizable distance out in space. The Apollo astronauts were the first to feel the full force of it: that mind-blowing moment
~ Anthony O'Neill
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.
~ Anton Chekhov
The salty fluid of life... the crystal-clear blood of the earth... That's what it is, Farhad. Tears. - Nitish
~ Antonia Michaelis
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
~ Antonio Porchia
I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.
~ Antonio Porchia
A private sector organization of the corporate world, in general, is a dark cell where a lot of demons dwell at peak posts and is a replica of hell on the Earth.
~ Anuj Somany
Humanity is only like the fresh water, not like an ocean that has saline water. But, remember that the world statistics show that only 0.3 % of 2.5% as all the fresh water on Earth is available as surface water.
~ Anuj Somany
Many say that the marriages are made in the heaven, so will it not be sensible to solemnize it only when the hell- like earth be made a heaven.
~ Anuj Somany
One who is worshiped by the people is either God or Demon, but everyone knows that God is not physically available on earth and remains always invisible for living only in heaven.
~ Anuj Somany
Send all fools from the earth to another planet, withing a few seconds all activities of this world will come to an end.
~ Anuj Somany