Quotes About Earth

To hear you tell it, you'd think man was only put on this earth to keep urinals from going to waste.

felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God's flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks.

One problem with democracy as it plays in our country is that the majority rules so hard; we seem bent on dividing all things into a contest of Win and Lose, and declaring that the Losers are losers. Nearly half of us are routinely asked to disappear while the slim majority works its will. But the playing field is the planet earth, and I for one have no place else to go.

I waited a moment, then lowered myself, cross-legged, to the earth. Some of the graves were adorned with flowers, in various stages of freshness and decay. As though the dead could smell the bouquets.

A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen exposed nearly its oldest part. I had lost my sense of urgency, rekindled a sense of what people were, clambering to gain access to high waterfalls and a sense of our endless struggle as a species to understand time and to estimate the consequences of our acts.

Our first wisdom as a species, that unique metaphorical knowledge that distinguishes us, grew out of such an intimacy with the earth; and, however far we may have come since that time, it did not seem impossible to me that night to go back and find it. I wanted to enquire among these people, for what we now decide to do in the North has a certain frightening irrevocability about it.

The Pacific is twice the size of the Atlantic, a comparison perhaps too incomprehensible to convey meaning. If in a cartoon, Mount Everest were placed on the floor of the Mariana Trench south of Guam, its peak would fall 6,800 feet short of the surface of the Pacific.

Only the misled can insist that heaven awaits the righteous while they watch the fires on Earth consume the only heaven we have ever known.

The alarming situation here for humanity is that H. sapiens, though it has asserted itself as the dominant species on Earth, is at the same time the potential victim of its domination over virtually all Earth's ecosystems. If H. sapiens were to become extinct, the event would simply be regarded as evolution continuing to unfold, a biological future for life but not one that any longer included humanity.

Is it still possible to face the gathering darkness and say to the physical Earth, and to all its creatures, including ourselves, fiercely and without embarrassment, I love you, and to embrace fearlessly the burning world?

The text goes on to explain that "now the giants who are born from the union of the spirits and the flesh shall be called evil spirits upon the earth. . . . Evil spirits have come out of their bodies" (15.8–9). This appears to be an explanation of where the beings who were later called demons came from. And so here we have a view even closer to that found

The Greek word apocalypsis means a "revealing" or an "unveiling." Scholars have called this view apocalyptic because its proponents believed that God had revealed or unveiled to them the heavenly secrets that could make sense of the realities they were experiencing—many of them nasty and ugly—here on earth. One

Proceed from earth! Proceed to heaven! Proceed!" Apollonius was being told, in other words, to ascend to the realm of the gods.

Boys grow up to be men . And it's men who cause all the trouble. They're the ones who shed the blood and poison the earth.

THERE IS NO GRAVITY, THE EARTH JUST SUCKS.

How we make large circles in earth for ourselves… Around we go, back to the start and the start is there again: resumption, which was ever the curse of daylight. How long before we see daylight again?

Collectivize one sixth of the earth? How? With what levers? Even the ultraleftist Trotsky, in a speech a few years back, had called a "transition to collective forms" of agriculture a matter of "one or two generations.

There is no such thing as perfection on earth and certainly not in a church.

Whenever righteousness falters and chaos threatens to prevail, I take on a human body and manifest myself on earth.

May 22, 1975 No wall, no plant, no air, no sky Clinging to form Clinging to emptiness Stops the love We create this earth To teach us the love We are here on this earth To practice the love. Hae Mi

The brilliance of the moon, of fire, the brilliance that flames from the sun to illumine the entire world - this brilliance in truth is mine. Entering the earth, I support all beings by my life-giving power: becoming the nectar-filled moonlight. I cause plants and herbs to thrive.

life is risk. All who inhabit the Earth inhale peril with each breath.

Ah, Creator! Timelord and Landsire! Did You intend that beauty and truth should pass utterly from the Earth?

one of the deep mysteries of the origin of life is the almost indecent haste with which it arose on Earth.