Minerals Quotes

• The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

  Rachel Carson

  Real, Lying, Water

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

  Arthur Young

  Inspirational, God, Sleep

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• We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Important, Skins

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• That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

  Philip K. Dick

  Jobs, Dark, Artist

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

  Linus Pauling

  Disease, Nutrition, Wellness

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• The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs while insuring their preservation for future generations requires a delicately balanced and continuing program, based on the most extensive research. Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.

  Rachel Carson

  Real, Lying, Water

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less.

  Rumi

  Dying, Dresses, Spirituality

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• All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

  Alan Watts

  People, Complicated, Consciousness

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• A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Sunshine, Clouds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.129, Harmony

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• After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Science, Animal

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• Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Divine Order, Faithful, Literature

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• Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Land, Water

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.177, Best Books on

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• Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Nature, Fall

  "Oeuvres de Pasteur". Book edited by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, Vol. I, 331, 1922-1939.

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• The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Uranium Mining, Gold, World

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• And the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Geddy Lee

  Ties, Horizon, Earth

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• A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits.

  James Hutton

  Moving, Mean, Science

  James Hutton (1795). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations”

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• There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body

  Margot Kidder

  Tyrants, Vitamins And Minerals, Medicine

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• If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Buddhist, Drinking, Glasses

  "Real Magic : Creating Miracles in Everyday Life" by Wayne W. Dyer, (p. 123), 2001.

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• Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Reflection, Years, Training

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• Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Nature, Science, Animal

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• And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

  Janice Dickinson

  Men, Vegetables, Mouths

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• Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Animal, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.82, Parallax Press

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• You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Drunk, Water, Tree

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• I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

  Rumi

  Death, Wisdom, Fear

  Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jal?l al-D?n R?m? (Maulana), Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (2001). “Selected Poems of Rumi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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