Quotes About Earth

A Peloponnesian strait is what the earth gives to the water, and Crete what the water gives to the earth.

no great significance that are too highly valued. It is in the feet that all knowledge of Mankind lies hidden; the body sends them a weighty sense of who we really are and how we relate to the earth. It's in the touch of the earth, at its point of contact with the body that the whole mystery is located—the fact that we're built of elements of matter, while also being alien to it, separated from it. The feet—those are our plugs into the socket.

And if he did hesitate for a moment, he would usually come to the conclusion that the truest argument was an old one: the Earth is round. Let us not be too attached, then, to directions. And this was understandable. To someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return, since nothing exerts such a draw as emptiness.

Devilish creatures are always recognized by their feet -- they stamp the earth with a different seal.

Nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty.

We have seen how Copernicus placed the earth in its true position in the solar system, making

In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how

unless they are at a practically infinite distance. That is the only answer that can be given. It was the tentative answer given by Copernicus. It is the correct answer. Not only from every position of the earth, but from every planet of the solar system, the same constellations are visible, and the stars have the same aspect. The

All that Copernicus could suggest on this head was that perhaps the atmosphere might help to carry things forward, and enable them to keep pace with the earth.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

the tree of the cross, which has become the tree of life, secretly identifies the earth with paradise and gives proof once again of the sacramental nature of things.

It is poetry which effortlessly moves the heavens and the earth, awakens the world of invisible spirits to deep feeling, softens the relationship between men and women, and consoles the hearts of fierce warriors.

You are incarnated in a physical body for the purpose of learning how to conquer matter — (thy kingdom come, thy will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven) — and if you do not start to learn how to conquer matter you will have to come back time and time again, over and over, until you do learn this lesson to overcome the illusion of matter.

The lights of the little café had signaled and called to his heart that, across the wasteland of the earth, there was home.

The earth is buzzing with metaphor

I am wearied to death with life. There's nothing it has that I want, but I celebrate my naked earth, there's no other world to descant.

Yo soy tan pobre como la naturaleza, y tan simple como el firmamento.

The Bible says that there will be animals in the regenerated earth, but nowhere does it say that the animals which we see now are immortal and that when they die they are raised again.

Higher man is a tragedy. With his graves he leaves behind the earth a battlefield and a wasteland. He has drawn plant and animal, the sea and mountain into his decline. He has painted the face of the world with blood, deformed and mutilated it. But there was greatness in it. When he is no more, his destiny will have been something great.

The record of rocks is a script containing stored memories of earth's past.

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes.

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.