Quotes About Earth

Laughing, he'd flung dense clouds of earth and stone skyward to blind them.

Yet peruse these stars overhead. They glisten with a youthful energy, nay, sparkle as if amused by the one who contemplates them. While the earth itself hints of vast blushes of red, orange and lavender.

and in the Calling Down to earth the God was Crippled, and so Chained in its place. In the Calling Down many lands were sundered by the God's Fists, and things were born and things were released. Chained and Crippled was this God

Each year surveyors had to redraw the boundaries of farmers' fields after the summer flooding of the Nile washed the borderlines away. That activity later gave its name to the study of shape in general: geometry, from the Greek g?, "earth," and metr?s, "measurer.

Along with numbers, shapes mattered too. In ancient Egypt, the measurement of lines and angles was of paramount importance. Each year surveyors had to redraw the boundaries of farmers' fields after the summer flooding of the Nile washed the borderlines away. That activity later gave its name to the study of shape in general: geometry, from the Greek ge, "earth," and metres, "measurer.

Alpha particles tunnel out of uranium nuclei at the predicted rate to produce the effect known as radioactivity. Tunneling also plays an important role in the nuclear-fusion processes that make the sun shine, so life on Earth depends partially on tunneling

In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.

The difference in the quality of consciousness between dreaming and being awake was close to the difference between our old earth life and the one there.

Maybe God was a demon – that would explain much of the misery of earth life.

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.

I'm not even much of a gardener—my contribution to the family garden consists mainly of compost.

We on earth do not feel either the gravitational field of the sun or the centrifugal force caused by the earth's motion around the sun because the two forces balance each other, but this balance would be spoiled if one force was proportional to the mass of the objects on which it acts and the other was not; some objects might then fall off the earth into the sun and others could be thrown off the earth into interstellar space.

There are landscapes there, but they are like nothing seen on Earth; gone are the restrictions of natural order; these are the kingdoms of imagination, where nothing is impossible or too bizarre.

Ainzu, my spirit is not beautiful. Lions devour the sweetest of lambs, for that is their nature." "Indeed, you are the beast," Ainzu said. "And is not the beast of the earth? And is the earth not beautiful?

We eloim on the Earth were Sammael's minions, although he ignored us now.

Soon, the great earth serpent would awake. Tamara knew that when it did, she would be a goddess. She would ride its power. Laughing.

She felt as if she'd finally come home, to people that had always been her people. Women working magic together, a tradition as old as the earth Herself.

Oh, I see, you care about the world. You green little queen!

The place was not like Caradore; the feeling was entirely different. Caradore was raw, as if the mountains were still young. Recolletine seemed older, more serene. It could be a place of healing, yes, but Khaster did not feel his spirit stir to the insistent throb of energy in the earth. There were no stark pure winds here, no pure demanding sky.

Oh, come to me, my pretty one! Come sit upon my lap and I will you to the secret places beneath the earth. Don't you understand your purpose? You are here because we hunt the Prince of Truth. Your husband, your lover, your despoiler.

There is an atmosphere in Sacramante like nowhere else on Earth. Now I understand some of what inspires it but then, as a girl, I was intoxicated and spellbound by its hectic gaeity, its intimation of secrets.

The actress found an ally who could help her net her wayward soul and she traveled soul and she traveled to a ruined city, where Hadith, as the breeze sang sweet melodies that wooed the soul to earth.

Great moving cities prowl in the Flatlands. They are drawn along lines of glittering stones, which are planted by a race of people who, steeped in their own mystery, direct the motions of the city. The cities are vast, huge leviathans that carve a deep wound into the earth.