T Quotes
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“The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.”
“The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once belived they were eternal.”
“The earth is man’s domain.”
“The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.”
“The Earth is more than scenery—it is ancestry.”
“The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.”
Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel
“The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The Earth is moving right now.”
“The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.”
“The earth is my body, my head is in the stars.”
Source: Harold and Maude
“The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight”
“The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.”
Source: The Book of Flights
“The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.”
“The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.”
“The earth is not created to function by miracles”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“The earth is not created to function by prayers or faith in God alone”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.”
“The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings...”
“The earth is not just for the clever and the strong. It must be possible even for weak and pitiful creatures — like himself and this old dog — to make some contribution in their lifetime.”
“The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.”
“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”
“The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.”
“The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in another part. The rich realize this. They live in these places and they use that power to stay rich.”
“The Earth is nothing but phlegm spat out by the Sun, and our immediate solar system a whirlwind of boulders. There is no "delicate balance".”
Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
“The earth is one tiny part of a vast energy net work.”
Source: Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic
“The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.”
“The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.”
“The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.”
“The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”
Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony
“The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.”
“The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The earth is rising to meet my feet.”
Source: Naked
“The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.”
Source: Undertones
“The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.”
“The earth is round for a reason. Your minimum effort starts you at the top of the world; your maximum effort keeps you there.”
“The Earth is Round!
Nothing, other than perhaps our universe, started in a vacuum and neither did the discovery of the Americas, which of course included the island of Cuba. Why did Columbus want to sail for parts unknown? What was going through his mind when he turned his small fleet of three ships in a westerly direction and headed towards the edge of the world? Surely, he didn’t have a death wish, so what was it that he knew that the rest of the 15th century world didn’t?
Scholars recalled that there had been a grand library in Alexandria, Egypt, that contained as many as 500,000 scrolls. These were the records of human endeavors, and the shared knowledge known to the people of that era. Many of these scrolls concerned themselves with science, history and the earthly wisdom that scholars wanted to share with others. Unfortunately, everything in the library was lost, when this magnificent structure burned to the ground in 48 BC however educated people still had a better understanding of Earth and their surroundings than we give them credit for. It was a fact that many did know that the Earth was round and speculated that navigators could sail west and arrive in the Far East!”
“The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits. This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos. We are even aroused by round forms in species propagation related eroticism. Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei's philosophy: my world is also round.”
“The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”
“The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.”
“The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.”
“The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.”
“The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.”
“The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.”
“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.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.”
Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.”
Source: In the Name of Sanity