Quotes About Earth

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.