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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tunin...

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

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like ...

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You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you...

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It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...

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Jon StewartEarth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His in...

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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With ou...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, e...

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Joseph Gordon-LevittThe Tiny Book of Tiny Stories

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousa...

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Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

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Jules VerneFive Weeks in a Balloon

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being i...

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Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...

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I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...

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We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: ...

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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the S...

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Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly ...

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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be ...

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He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...

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One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the qu...

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The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...

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...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical con...

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Lewis ThomasLate Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my...

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They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

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Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the univers...

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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this eart...

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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I think my appeal is that I've always tried to stay very grounded to my fans and to be accessible - ...

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There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its right...

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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious ...

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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that...

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The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronaut...

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Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilder...

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I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions....

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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called ...

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It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that univers...

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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim i...

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The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bo...

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The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to ...

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Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even fi...

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Michael PollanA Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best...

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It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro...

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Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger tha...

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Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a go...

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Michio KakuParallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we ha...

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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than b...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...

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Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light...

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Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once wa...

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There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have ...

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I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained w...

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On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were a...

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Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's n...

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Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life i...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her...

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I lack nothing, I tell you!”“Nothing?” I asked. “Not even heaven?”He lowered his head and was silent...

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With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

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Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of th...

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People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first re...

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Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion an...

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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemi...

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No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed wit...

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It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is conc...

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That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shini...

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The earth is buzzing with metaphor

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Our love was bornoutside the walls,in the wind,in the night,in the earth,and that's why the clay and...

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the ea...

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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leave...

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That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy...

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Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a flu...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...

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To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (...

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The air was motionless, carved, a block of warm copper fitting neatly around the earth, molded while...

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

The sole equality on earth is death.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourse...

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We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if w...

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What need does the earth have of us?

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Pope FrancisLaudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. T...

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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of ...

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

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