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Quotes About Earth

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
~ Galileo Galilei
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
~ Wendell Berry
Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow.
~ Brahmagupta
Earth laughs in flowers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
~ Rachel Carson
Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations.
~ Amit Ray
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
~ Carol P. Christ
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
~ John Stuart Blackie
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
~ Vaclav Smil
All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.
~ Benvenuto Cellini
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
~ Rachel Carson
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.
~ Ernst Haeckel
Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?
~ Hartley Coleridge
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
~ John Burroughs
Our purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth.
~ Anthony D. Williams
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.
~ Laozi
Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.
~ Akiane Kramarik
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.
~ John F. Kennedy
In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.
~ George Henry Lewes
Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.
~ Richard Henry Stoddard
All nature is the temple; earth the altar.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
~ Paul Tsongas