Quotes About Earth

Earth will never be a paradise, but it could perhaps be prevented from coming closer and closer to being a vulgar imitation of hell.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly,Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky,From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,I really think the greatest fool is man.

STORM ENDING by Jean Toomer Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . . Full-lipped flowers Bitten by the sun Bleeding rain Dripping rain like golden honey— And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.

FOR A POET by Countee Cullen I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold; Where long will cling the lips of the moth, I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth; I hide no hate; I am not even wroth Who found earth's breath so keen and cold; I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold.

As if the sheer force of her anguish had made her, inexplicably, the most important person on earth

Edmund slipped out of his shoes and socks and worked his toes down under the layer of pine needles, then stood silent, opening himself to the green." "Permeable Borders: Sourheart

The four elements: earth, water, fire and air; the qualities recognized by touch: cold, heat, dryness, and moisture; the temperaments: sanguineous, phlegmatic, choleric, and saturnine; the faculties: natural, animal, and vital.

On the edge of things was the sound of the ocean, that tectonic drum, the heartbeat of the earth.

will begin with the analogy of the rose. In the smell of the rose, there is hardly a fragrance that can compare with its beauty. But how would you describe this fragrance? The way we would describe it is that it is closer to the word and feeling of love than any other flower on the Earth

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth." Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness)

Apologies are totally inadequate,' shouted Uncle Wattleberry. 'Nothing short of felling you to the earth with an umbrella could possibly atone for the outrage. You are a danger to the whisker-growing public. You have knocked my hat off, pulled my whiskers, and tried to remove my nose.

Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.

Longing for Death Down into the womb of the earth, Out of the kingdom of light, Anger, pain, and a savage blow Signal the happy departure.

Paradise is scattered over the whole earth, and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.

I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it's heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who've made such a hell of life here on Earth.

Earth is a big place. Even if parts of it are uninhabitable, it's still a damn big place.

The ooloi have seen to it that you'll have a chance to live on your Earth—not just to die on it.

When clouds appear like rocks and towers, the earth's refreshed by frequent showers.

the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.

I find the satellite pictures and the curvature of the Earth very moving. So is it true that we live on the surface of a sphere, exposed to the gaze of the planets, left in a great void, where after the Fall the light was smashed to smithereens and blown apart? It is true. We should remember that every day, for we do tend to forget.