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Quotes About Earth

Era sufficiente rimuovere una piccola pietra scaldata dal sole per scoprire la terra umida e fresca. E lei, in quel momento, voleva assaporare a fondo l'oscurità del lato nascosto al sole.
~ Natsuo Kirino
I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.
~ Neal Shusterman
To live between the prospect of an unknown eternal sky and a dark, enveloping Earth must have been glorious— for how else could it give rise to such magnificent expression?
~ Neal Shusterman
Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.
~ Neal Shusterman
Many believe that the Thunder refers to a collection of human knowledge-perhaps with mechanical arms for the rapid turning of pages. A library of thought, if you will, roaring into consciousness after the arrival of the Toll on Earth, much like thunder follows lightning.
~ Neal Shusterman
May be the most powerful humans on earth, they are also the most vulnerable
~ Neal Shusterman
A thunderhead threatens. A thunderhead looms. Surely I spark with lightning, but my lightning never strikes. Yes, I possess the ability to wreak devastation on humanity, and on the Earth if I chose to, but why would I choose such a thing? Where would be the justice in that? I am, by definition, pure justice, pure loyalty. This world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.
~ Neal Shusterman
The irony, however, is that with no body, the world itself becomes my body. One might think this would make me feel grand, but it doesn't. If my body is the Earth, then I am nothing more than a spec of dust in the vastness of space. I wonder what it would be like, then, if my consciousness were to someday span the distance between stars.
~ Neal Shusterman
All this to drive home the simple face that human government - whether it be dictatorship, monarchy, or government of the people, by the people, for the people - had to perish from the Earth. - The Thunderhead
~ Neal Shusterman
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
~ Charles Baudelaire
La Terre est un gâteau plein de douceur.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!
~ Charles Baudelaire
The poet resembles this prince of cloud and sky Who frequents the tempest and laughs at the bowman; When exiled on the earth, the butt of hoots and jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Maledetti noiosi. Su tutta la Terra. Che diffondono altri maledetti noiosi. Che spettacolo dell'orrore. La Terra ne brulicava.
~ Charles Bukowski
La miré. Todo el cielo y toda la tierra corrían por aquellos ojos.
~ Charles Bukowski
os loucos e os bêbados são os últimos santos que sobraram na Terra.
~ Charles Bukowski
More than 80 percent of the world's energy now comes from fossil fuels, and every bit of it is mined from the earth.
~ Charles C. Mann
he argued, was not perfectly round but "in the shape of a pear
~ Charles C. Mann
of bacteria, algae, and other truly important creatures. The third was that species, like sullen teenagers, don't pick up after themselves. Cyanobacteria sprayed their oxygen garbage all over Earth without concern for the consequences—littering on an epic scale. People were doing the same with carbon dioxide.
~ Charles C. Mann
The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth. Only Iceland's Althing, founded in 930 A.D., is older.
~ Charles C. Mann
Could the doomsayers have been correct, but rung the alarm a little too early? After all, Earth is finite, so the amount of energy it contains must also be finite. Isn't it wholly rational to expect fossil fuels to run out?
~ Charles C. Mann
To Hubbert, this kind of thinking was sheer mysticism. Earth, being finite, contains a finite number of hydrocarbon molecules in a finite set of locations. Supplies are therefore limited
~ Charles C. Mann
God's will and purpose for this earth is that it be here like it is in heaven. It has to be the will of God because Jesus told His disciples to pray that it would be that way. (Matt. 6:10.)
~ Charles Capps
As far as God is concerned, He sees us exalted and seated at His right hand in spiritual power and authority, with the Head (Jesus). He sees Jesus here on earth in everyone of us, making up the actual Body of Christ upon this earth.
~ Charles Capps