Quotes About Earth

a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical." Self and Spirit define the opposite ends of a spectrum, but that spectrum needn't reach clear to the heavens to have meaning for us. It can stay right here on earth.

savikalpa samadhi, in which the ego vanishes when confronted with the immensity of the universe during the course of a meditation on an object—in this case, planet Earth.

Si yo fuese un dictador dispuesto a controlar la prensa nacional, Organic Gardening sería la primera publicación que acallaría, porque es la más subversiva. Creo que los horticultores orgánicos encabezan un esfuerzo serio por salvar el mundo, cambiando la disposición del hombre hacia él para alejarse del estado colectivo, centralista y superindustrial y alcanzar una relación más sencilla, real y de tú a tú con la propia tierra.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what's happening to the Earth and the like.

I am basically a folk singer because I'm coming from a part of the earth where folklore means a lot. The Mediterranean is a very old part of the world, and the more a place is old, the more there is folklore.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.

We are killing life on Earth, we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. We're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

I think I sound like the apocalypse destroying the Earth to the sounds of trumpets skating across the heavens played by angels.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.

Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief.

Love has no charm when Love is swept to earth: you'd make a lop-winged god, frozen and contrite, of god up-darting, winged for passionate flight.