Quotes About Earth

Prophets of Nature, we to them will speakA lasting inspiration, sanctifiedBy reason, blest by faith: what we have loved,Others will love, and we will teach them how;Instruct them how the mind of man becomesA thousand times more beautiful than the earthOn which he dwells.

The sunshine is a glorious birth;But yet I know, where'er I go,That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

Earth has not anything to show more fair:Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

we should see the earth Unthwarted in her wish to recompense The industrious

A man does not sell the earth the people walk on." That

The badlands, the place where the earth itself was misshapen, where the gods had destroyed the ancient animals and hurled their bones into the earth.

I don't understand all the nuances of the women's movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.

The Anishinaabeg world undulated between material and spiritual shadows, never clear which was more prominent at any time. It was as if the world rested in those periods rather than in the light of day. Dawn and dusk, biidaaban, mooka'ang. The gray of sky and earth was just the same, and the distinction between the worlds was barely discernible.

Ap. 14:7 Diciendo a gran voz: Temed a Dios, y dadle gloria, ... y adorad a Aquel que hizo el cielo y la tierra, el mar y las fuentes de las aguas.

The tree of life is the center of the universe. According to the purpose of God, the earth is the center of the universe, the garden of Eden is the center of the earth, and the tree of life is the center of the garden of Eden. We must realize that the whole universe is centered on this tree of life: nothing is more central and crucial to both God and man than this tree. It is very meaningful to see man in the garden standing before the tree of life.

In frantically trying to help God run His business by establishing visible and impressive cathedrals and headquarters on earth, we might have actually unwittingly hindered Him, because these structures may have shouted glory to humanity so loudly that we've drowned out the glory of the Lamb in the process.

In heaven above there is Zhulin Monastery; on earth below there is Shaolin Monastery.

The earth also kindly teaches men justice, at least such as are able to learn; for it is those who treat her best that she recompenses with the most numerous benefits.

You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.

Quelle que soit l'ampleur des dégâts, aucun cataclysme n'empêchera la Terre de tourner.

All good farmers become connoisseurs of dirt and dust.

We are bound to the earth by fate, and by gravity, so we will have to plod along and follow what clues are available. I

I was going to a spot where I knew the water still flowed directly from the earth. A long time ago, with an Indian guide who knew something of the territory, I was shown a spring which never dries, where the Caweng-na Village sat, between the paws of Bear Mountain. (All this may sound hokey, but it is, of course, true.)

For Luther the religious was the thing of greatest importance on earth; for Erasmus it was the human.

For better or worse, humans or our descendants will be responsible for life on Earth for the indefinite future. Despite the initially daunting technical challenges, the biggest obstacle to compassionate stewardship of the world's free-living nonhuman animal population is not technical or even financial but ideological.

The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast—above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill—has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.

From the ecological point of view an outbreak can be defined as an explosive increase in the abundance of a particular species that occurs over a relatively short period of time." Then, in the same bland tone, he noted: "From this perspective, the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.