T Quotes
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“The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.”
“The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men.”
Source: Principles of Geology
“The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.”
“The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.”
“The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.”
Source: An Imaginary Life
“The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.”
“The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land gets cultivated, "it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is in individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent..to every person, rich or poor...because it is in lieu of the natural inheritance, which, as a right, belongs to every man, over and above the property he may have created, or inherited from those who did”
“The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.”
“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.”
Source: On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment
“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.”
Source: Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home
“The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet ...
“The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.”
“The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.”
“The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.”
“The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.”
Source: The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments
“The Earthistana Anthem
(Sonnet 2570-2574)
I was born without lineage,
without a holy claim -
no prophet in my pocket,
no empire to my name.
But I rose from the ruins
of the borders they drew,
and I learned from the ashes
what a human can do.
The world was carved with lies,
with flags of hate and fear -
but the pulse of integration
kept pulling me near.
So I wrote my own scripture
with the ink of equality -
no one is a stranger,
one people are we.
Raise your heart like a banner,
tear the hatred apart -
every life is revolution,
every breath is an art.
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne -
the world is our home,
the duty is my own.
No God above the human,
no border in the mind -
tolerance is our anthem,
we are the humankind.
I've seen temples feed on fear,
graves labeled as pride -
I've seen nations crowned
with glory, yet cruelty inside.
But I've also seen a stranger
share their only bread,
and in that tiny gesture,
every scripture was said.
We are the dawn that we seek,
let the dread of dark retire -
we are the rebels of empathy,
our ammunition nerve fiber.
Let the world's wounded pages
be rewritten by you -
with the ink of courage,
with the rainbow of truth.
Let us lift the fallen,
heal the fractures of fate -
every act of kindness,
makes tyranny evaporate.
From monastery bells
to the muezzin's call,
from the wailing walls
to the city hall,
when our voices combine,
the soil becomes sacred -
the only holy nation
is the one without hatred.
Pilgrim of the heart,
oneness in our vein -
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.
Shortcircuit the convention,
surpass all claim to fame -
let us enhance, not reduce each other,
so the world becomes humane.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“The Earthkeepers believe that the world is real, but only because we've dreamed it into being. But dreaming requires an act of courage, for when we lack it, we have to settle for the world that's being created by our culture or by our genes - we feel we have to settle for the nightmare. To dream courageously, we must be willing to use our hearts.”
Source: Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being
“The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death.”
“The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.”
Source: A Very Easy Death
“The earthly mortal achievements will be treated and audited as zero value when death knocks on the door of your life”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.”
“The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.”
“The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchants, psychos, ghouls. They could smell a funeral a mile off, and out they crawled, out of the woodwork. A funeral lit them up, it was like fuel, it kept them burning for days.”
Source: The Five Gates of Hell
“The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.”
“The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.”
“The ease with which certain words come to be musused is truly extraordinary: there are some who have gone so far as to give the name 'traditions' to popular habits, or even to conventions of quite recent origin, withouth importnace or real significance. As for ourselves, we refuse to give this name to what is only a more or less automatic respect for certain outward forms, which are sometimes nothing more than 'superstitions' in the etymological sense of the word. True tradition dewells in the outlook of a people or race or civilization, and it springs from causes that lie far deeper.”
Source: EAST AND WEST
“The ease with which money
forgives bayonets and lies
to justify the massacre with reasoned arguments”
Source: June Fourth Elegies
“The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.”
Source: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
“The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.”
“The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f - k. And now, you know, when actual sexual acts become so easy, their intimacy declines and their meaning declines.”
“The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.”
“The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.”
“The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.”
“The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.”
“The easier you trust, the more you are hurt.”
“The easier your hair is to manage the happier you'll be with it and the prettier you'll feel.”
Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman
“The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.”
“The easiest and most powerful way to increase customer loyalty is really very simple. Make your customers happy.”
“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.”
“The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The `polish and pipeclay' school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.”
“The easiest and quickest way to reach the still point is in nature. There is a tremendous amount of stillness in the busyness of nature. If we can find the still point in nature, we can find it in our bodies. Our body is nature. The still point in nature is also the still point in us.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.”
“The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.”
“The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.”
“The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.”