Quotes About Earth

Actually, man is supposed to be god over the earth. God gave him dominion over it. He said, There it is, Adam. It's yours. You can do what you want with it. But don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of blessing and calamity, for the day that you eat you will surely die.

The only physical body Jesus has on the earth today is the Church - the Body of Christ.

Il me serait difficile de rappeler au lecteur qui n'est pas familier avec la géologie les faits au moyen desquels on arrive à se faire une vague et faible idée de l'immensité de la durée des âges écoulés.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

The comeliest order on earth is but a heap of random sweepings.

Mostly the colors of that land stuck to shades of red dirt and black cinders with a few dashes of sickly green. And yet look up, and the sun burned yellow and the sky rolled blue and deep like an argument that the world had not gone wrong at all.

Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dull would be the soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty.

around which pigs and barefoot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

we were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move.

We extract one hundred tons of coal from the earth every two seconds in the United States, and about seventy percent of that coal comes from strip mines and mountaintop removal, which began in 1970.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.

We need to open the frontier between the Earth and Moon to large-scale human activities, we need to establish human outposts and communities off the Earth and begin the job of doing so right away - and do so largely based on letting the people take over most of the jobs.

Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.

I love my boys more than anything on this earth.

The name Downhere comes from a song I wrote after a friend of mine died in college, and it was kind of the first time I was dealing with loss and, you know, real mortality, and it was a song of how down here on Earth, we don't have the big picture.

In fact, if any state wants to spend any money to do better at helping mother earth out. I'm okay with that - even California.

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

Spring lay strewn lightly like a fragrant gauzy scarf upon the earth; the night was a cool bowl of lilac darkness, filled with fresh orchard scents.

The pallid light drowned out the stars, it lay like silence on the earth, it dropped through the leafy web of the young maples, printing the earth with swarming moths of elvish light.

O mortal and perishing love, born with this flesh and dying with this brain, your memory will haunt the earth forever.