Earth Quotes - Page 19

• To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Religion, Sin

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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• And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.

  Andrew McMahon

  Sick, Would Be, Proud

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• As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

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• Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sorry, Powerful, Stupid

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• Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Modesty, Shyness

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• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  Randy Bachman

  Wall, Example, Add

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• The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

  Bill Ayers

  Past, Half, World

  "Bill Ayers: The United States Is the Foremost Threat to World Peace Today". Interview with Kourosh Ziabari, en.farsnews.com. December 06, 2014.

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• Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Inspirational, Joy, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.179

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• He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Men, Rivers

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• In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Reading, Home, Moon

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• Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Mean, Wealth, Planets

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• Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

  George Monbiot

  Opposites, Support, Progress

  "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs of even small population increases. Action is urgently required on both fronts to protect our life on earth

  Phil Harding

  Energy, Population, Needs

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• Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is suffering. It is suffering from poor development, in the North as in the South, and we are indifferent. The Earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible. It is time now to open our eyes

  Jacques Chirac

  Eye, House, Humanity

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• If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  "When a Thought of War Comes, Oppose It By a Stronger Thought of Peace: Baha’i Inspiration Amidst Disunity" by Homa Sabet Tavangar, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Years, Survival

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• To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Funeral, Choices, Body

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• Wonder is the salt of the earth.

  M. C. Escher

  Salt, Wonder, Awe

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• Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

  Chad Harbach

  Life, Believe, World Issues

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• Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like a glowing white planet coming into view. A reverse eclipse. And you watch with your eyes closed. The white planet is half exposed, it grips your heart in its light and seems to be pulling you forward and now you feel that you are falling. You are awake but dreaming. "The earth is not beautiful but the universe is," you say.

  Patrick deWitt

  Beautiful, Dream, Pain

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• A person is not earth, not water,
  Not fire, not wind, not space,
  Not consciousness, and not all of them.
  What person is there other than these?

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Fire, Wind, Space

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• Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.... The two propositions: "The earth turns round" and "it is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round" have the same meaning; there is nothing more in the one than in the other.

  Henri Poincare

  Moving, Math, Two

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• If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

  Jonas Salk

  Insects, Humans, Ifs

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• The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Home, Character

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
  None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

  Bob Dylan

  Wine, Lines, Drink

  Song: All Along The Watchtower, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

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