Earth quotes

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

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

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose it's place.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the earth brought forth grass and the Rastafarians smoked it.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

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

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

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

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

No one on this Earth knows how old I am.

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

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

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

The earth laughs in flowers.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.