Quotes About Earth

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

As I ran along, I remember... saying to myself, 'You know, this is really the moon. We're really here... That's the Earth up there.' And I said it two or three times to myself.

I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

To dwell is to garden.

Everything has to do with geography.

What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.

We need a greening of globalisation.

It's amazing to see the Earth in its glory down there.

Don't be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.

I don't wear gloves when I work in the garden.

Si les peuples de la Terre n'étaient pas préparés à la venue des Martiens, c'était entièrement leur faute.

The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers... Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

It is good to think that in Heaven all troubles will be over, that war and carnage will be no more, that all injustice, cruelty and wrong shall be no more; but incomparably better is it for a man to gird on the whole armour of truth and righteousness, and wage war with these evils, and banish them from the Earth -- and thus have the will of God done on Earth as done in Heaven.

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

These fruits are ripe, dipped in fire, Cooked and sampled here on earth.

These fruits are ripe, dipped in fire, Cooked and tested here on earth.

Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihn, Die Götter schenken heiliges Leid uns auch, Drum bleibe dies. Ein Sohn der Erde Schein ich; zu lieben gemacht, zu leiden.

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim.