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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live wi...

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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence f...

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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

But Nature granted to gold and silver no function with which we cannot easily dispense. Human folly ...

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Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlin...

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And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not ...

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

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It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done.

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Ursula K. Le GuinFour Ways to Forgiveness

I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill,...

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We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are...

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Let us not, however, exaggerate our power. Whatever man does, the great lines of creation persist; t...

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Victor HugoThe Toilers of the Sea

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of mo...

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. . . distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communin...

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We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influen...

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Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Eart...

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And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

Then his singing paused, and he stood for a moment to cry out softly in the vernacular of the region...

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The Earth is what we all have in common.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...

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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...

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Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and ho...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent socie...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it wor...

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Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and ...

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Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like...

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I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which...

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How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for...

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William MorrisThe Beauty of Life: William Morris the Art of Design

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're her...

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The planet is finished with us, at this point -

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me...

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They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from wh...

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Who made the world I cannot tell;'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of wh...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and se...

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On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single bo...

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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot ...

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No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed...

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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some ...

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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth...

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What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the ...

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The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this ...

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What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us....

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Alice WalkerNow Is the Time to Open Your Heart

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he w...

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Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate...

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Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step ...

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Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much lov...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

The job of the United Nations is to grow more flowers, more smiles and more beauty on the earth. Onc...

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Amit RayPeace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World

Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play groun...

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Amit RayPeace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World

The job of the united nations is to grow more flowers on the earth.

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Amit RayPeace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World

It doesn't matter, whether it is an x, y or z country, every penny spends for nuclear weapons streng...

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Amit RayPeace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...

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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. B...

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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off...

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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the mo...

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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants...

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The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness f...

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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them...

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Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most...

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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see th...

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An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow pl...

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I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

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Barry LopezCrossing Open Ground

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer...

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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what arc...

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For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens...

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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of hea...

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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or sme...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion yea...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to ...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

We know amazingly little about what happens beneath our feet. It is fairly remarkable to think that ...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years o...

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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Eart...

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No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a s...

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ...

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In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly...

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The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing ...

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Carl SaganBillions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium