Earth Quotes - Page 23

• Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

  Zhuangzi

  Eggs, Heaven

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• No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Heaven, Watches

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• It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Heaven, Joy, Sorrow

  Charles Henry Mackintosh (2012). “Notes on the Pentateuch - Volume I: Genesis”, p.174, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

  A. E. Housman

  Good Night, Sea, Land

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• Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

  A. E. Housman

  Strong, Heaven, Fixed

  A. E. Housman, “Be Still, My Soul, Be Still; The Arms You Bear Are Brittle”

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• I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.

  Robert Fulghum

  Religious, Work, Dirty

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• I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Glowing, Dust

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.

  Wendell Berry

  Sleep, Eye, Heart

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.180, Counterpoint Press

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• God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

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• And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Blue, Sky, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.96, 1st World Publishing

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• We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Fashion, Iron, Machines

  Clemente Orozco V., José Clemente Orozco (2004). “José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work”, p.5, University of Texas Press

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• Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

  Georges Cuvier

  Marine, Animal, Revolution

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• God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!

  Rick Warren

  Want, Made

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 13, 2011

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• Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

  Robert M. Fresco

  Ocean, Sky, Depth

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• All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

  Joseph Campbell

  Beautiful, Views, Broken

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• A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

  Richard Aldington

  Common Sense, Paradise, Littles

  Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

  Fredric Brown

  Men, Doors, Horror Stories

  "From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown".

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• Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Mean, Two

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• The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Wind, Sea, Dancing

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• Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

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• Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

  Jane Goodall

  Play, Roles, Matter

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
  Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
  For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
  His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
  On earth is not his equal.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Crafts, Woe

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she
  manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again,
  by her own amazed, ringing laughter.

  Eric Maisel

  Laughter, Artist, Feet

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• All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Distance, Eye, Interesting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Grieving, Clouds, Hands

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