Earth And Sky Quotes

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

Life, Nature, Philosophical

"Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Todd Burpo

Real, Sky, Heaven

"Fictional Character: Todd Bupro". "Heaven Is for Real", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Lonely, Nature, Travel

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock

Education, Teacher, Nature

"The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky.

George Herbert

Sweet, Sky, Earth

'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Sky, Earth, Action

Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.

William C. McCool

Space, Imagination, Beautiful You

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Nature, Men, Earth Day

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Henry Beston

Love, Sea, Valleys

Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

Thomas A. Edison

Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

James F. Cooper

Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Marianne Williamson

Love, Sky, Important

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

Strength, Beauty, Nature

Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

Alfred Worden

Home, Moon, Space

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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

Jules Verne

Clouds, Sky, Mountain

Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the Moon”, p.135, Jules Verne

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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Nhat Hanh

Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

Nature, Adventure, Garden

John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Forests are the lungs of our land.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Land, Earth Day, Tree

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Neil Armstrong

Eye, Space, Blue

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

Charles Lindbergh

Stars, Sky, Molecules

Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

William Anders

Moon, Space, Earth Day

"The mysteries of sleepwalking and night fears are not solved", www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

John Updike

Life, Rain, Sky

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In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.

Rene Daumal

Men, Sky, Mountain

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As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.

James Irwin

Beautiful, Fall, Men

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