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Quotes About Earth

I started to cry. And I looked up and saw the bleak pines by the bleak mills of Roanoke Rapids with one final despair, like the despair of a man who has nothing left to do but leave the earth forever.
~ Jack Kerouac
What difference does it make after all?—anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
~ Jack Kerouac
It was three children of the earth trying to decide something in the night and having all the weight of the past centuries ballooning in the dark before them
~ Jack Kerouac
the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
~ Jack Kerouac
It was 3 children of the earth trying to decide something in the night and having all the weight of past centuries balooning in the dark before them.
~ Jack Kerouac
the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never, I think of Dean Moriarty.
~ Jack Kerouac
Um dia hei de renascer numa grande cidade de outro sistema planetário, no passado ou no futuro, onde uma única montanha de 5km de altitude se recorta no céu azul - com toda a compaixão que sinto dentro de mim, a única coisa que vou precisar é da sabedoria da terra.
~ Jack Kerouac
My mind to me a kingdom is. That's another way of saying that you live up in the air. But you come back to earth at meal-time, I am sure, or when an earthquake happens along.
~ Jack London
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
~ Barbara Block
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
~ Anne Lamott
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
~ Barry Marshall
All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.
~ Dennis Prager
Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes.
~ Michael J. Massimino
When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community.
~ Rusty Schweickart
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
~ Sun Tzu
All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
~ Lauren Kate
But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?
~ Harry S. Truman
Let's gather the world in a game of love with the goal of kicking our tears past Eternity & she'll kick the earth into humanity.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.
~ Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
~ Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
~ Robert Frost
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
~ Hildegard of Bingen
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
~ Jack Kerouac
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
~ Solomon