Quotes About Earth

To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Differences of Opinion 1 HE TELLS HER He tells her that the earth is flat -- He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong, But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to yell. She cannot win. He stands his ground. The planet goes on being round.

The Greek historian Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BCE, said that the Indians were the most populous country on earth (5.3).

An art college tip is probably the repository for some of the ugliest objects on earth because they aren't only ugly objects, they're ugly objects that are trying to be art.

The liturgical year roots our faith. It grounds the invisible, animating our lives in the visible, tactile world. It is elemental. It drapes flesh on the skeletons of our too-ghostly religiosity. It connects heaven with earth, divine with human. It allows us to access the mysteries of our faith. In its feasts and fasts we taste and see God.

Last night I learned that for everyone alive on earth today, there are thirty ghosts lined up behind them. Not literally lined up, of course, but that's how many dead people there are compared to living people. In all, around a hundred billion people have walked on this planet, which, interestingly enough, is the same number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

one planet doesn't matter.

The first thing we could say was simply: 'I believe in God, the Father, the almighty creator of heaven and earth.

Man is the only creature on earth that can create his own environment. This is because he is the privileged creation of the Great Creator.

Bascal laughed. "You can't actually believe that, boyo. When was the last no-confidence vote in the Senate? The people of Earth were tired of responsibility; they forced it on my parents, and wouldn't take it back now even if they could.

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment amid pieties and convention. If they must strip-mine the world to expose its hypocrisy, they will do so, even if they leave a landscape barren of hope. Then there are those writers who prefer to remythologize life on earth, finding it rich with strange congruences and possibilities.

Entendi que cada um dos elementos vivos segura uma ponta do fio da vida e o que fere e machuca a Terra, machuca também a todos nós, os filhos da Terra.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

To cover the houses and the stones with green—so the sky would make sense—you have to push down black roots into the dark. —CESARE PAVESE

Werner Herzog: "My steps are resolute. And now the Earth shakes. When I walk, a buffalo walks. When I rest, a mountain rests." This is echoed by Zen master D?gen, "If you doubt mountains walking you don't know your own walking.

mixture of gardenia and something earthy like tea leaves—and

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings. Angelology pg. 32

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations." The pope certainly recognized and understood that this wasn't a randomly chosen expression of optimism.