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“African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.”

World Kind May Matter Philosophy Whole Problem Earth Force Process Deals Air Tradition Painful Whole Life Instance Oneness Eastern Correspondence Eastern Philosophy

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.”

Source: The Face of War

“The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.”

Earth Air Dancer Ballet Domain Ballet Dancer

Author:Lincoln Kirstein

“Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.”

People Ifs Stills Earth Lost Left Grief Air Breathing Consumption

Author:Aunjanue Ellis

“There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.”

“until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?”

Earth Water Fire Air Masters Elements Air And Water Water And Fire

Author:Eloise Lownsbery

“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.”

“I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.”

Men Want Earth Interest Water Saws Cutting Air Land Objects Planets Concern Witness Vietnam Veteran Memorial Polished Want To Travel Air And Water Vietnam Veteran Geologic Time

Author:Maya Lin

“A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.”

Earth Black Space Rich Air Objects Mountain Ocean Structure Holes Valleys Singularity Black Hole Tornadoes

Author:Kip Thorne

“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.”

Ifs Has Beens Soul Action Earth Found Loss Accepting Forever Air Victory Embrace Everyday Defeat Gentle Settling Pockets Target Flags Defeated Everyday Life Sigh Silk Drifting Turbulence

Book:The Gargoyle

Source: The Gargoyle

“There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.”

World Moments Dream Happens Earth Fall Heaven Sleep Air Awareness Strange Edges Dirt Floating Surreal Ruthless Jerk Completion Fading Over The Edge Brief Moments

Author:Andrew Davidson

“If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.”

Ifs Would Be Earth Suffering Energy Happened Air Effects Amount Ocean Atmosphere Excess Rolling Traps Extinction Temperature Venus Greenhouses Runaway Solar Energy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.”

Doe Earth Lasts Death Causes Fear Water Steps Fire Air Mines Instruments Structure Fatigue Last Day

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.”

Earth Air Summer Spring Climate Winter Heat Reign Egypt Tranquility

Book:Journals

Source: Journals

“As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.”

Men World Way War Earth Lord Air Sea Crafts Mortals Boards Sail Sailing Sinking Milky Way Admiral

Book:White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”

Thinking Writing Art Book Would Be Earth Together Artist Language Support Air Subjects Style Invisible Thoughtful Attachment Exterior

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.”

Two Earth Differences Air Wind Regions Temperature Density

Author:Evangelista Torricelli

Should Earth Water Imagine Air Becoming Walking Capacity Flying Thinker Swimming Dreamer Imagine That Load Idle Learn To Fly

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.”

Want Body Seems Earth Nature Change Animal Air Mountain All Things Plant Passing Passings Smoke Perpetual Consumption Incessantly Adamant

Book:The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.”

Earth Strong Air Tree Roots Fruit Winter Former Autumn Texture Sap Ripening

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.”

World Real Earth Water Fire Air Land Depends Models Labor Enormous Chosen Complexity Divides Real World Classification Taxonomy Labor And Capital

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.”

“Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.”

Mind Soul Body Earth Moving Water Lines Fire Air Cosmos Straight Lines Orbit

Author:Sallust

“The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.”

Made Earth Force Water Air Sky Building Sacred Breathing Holiness Necks Worn Living Things Here And Now Imbibing

Author:Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

“The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.”

Source: Boundless Healing: Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body

“More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?”

Source: The Healing Power of Kindness

“As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.”

“And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!”

Source: Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction

“Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydro-geological and atmospheric systems, turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, degrading that 'flower bed'-which is the earth, our dwelling place.”

“My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.”

Men Earth Spirit Air Shapes Calm Flight Spots Smoke Aviation Regions Immortal Serene Mansions

Author:John Milton

“The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.”

Men Body Earth Fall Air He Man Higher Labor Attraction Tendencies Rising Aviation Regions Gravity Predictions Floats

Book:The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings

Source: The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings

“We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”

Earth Air Waste Built Toxic Consumerism Overconsumption Toxic Waste

Author:Richard J. Foster

“I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.”

People Thinking World Needs Earth Social Process Water Justice Air Economic Movement Happenings Social Justice Committed Saving Globalization Very Positive Economic Justice World Bank

Author:Assata Shakur

“If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.”

Ifs Littles Earth Air Committed Saving Designer Buying Gas Mask Filters Nike Gas Masks

Author:Assata Shakur

“The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.”

Men God Earth Fall Water Sun Five Air He Man Ought Ill Creator Servant Servant Of God

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.”

Earth Together Dark Air Rocks Fine Moon Evidence Surface Dust Variety Gray Fewer Lacking Molecules Pebbles Cement Boulders

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above, as you study the mechanics of how this is made possible by understanding the construction, the laws of motion, the air that can provide lift when it is moved by propulsion through the air, and stay above the gravity pulling the airplane back down to earth.”

Made Earth Law Joy Understanding Class Study Air Moved Flight Lifts Construction Gravity Airplane Pulling Mechanic Airports Down To Earth Propulsion Laws Of Motion

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.”

Littles Earth Greater Air Feet Return Pressure Smell Atmosphere Salt Parachutes

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.”

Earth Air Increase Environmental Population Pollution Rapids Accord Wwii Extremist Environmentalist Exploding Cooling Air Pollution

Author:Reid Bryson

“The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities and effects of the Water and Earth elements call forth the astral-magnetic fluid. The spirit-beings use these fluids to create the effects or rather the causes in our physical world. The Akasha Principle of the astral sphere maintains the harmonious equilibrium of the elements in the entire astral sphere.”

World Use Earth Spirit Causes Water Principles Fire Magic Air Effects Activity Elements Mysticism Spheres Electric Fluid Harmonious Equilibrium Magnetic

Author:Franz Bardon

“whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!”

Source: Small world: an academic romance

“Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved in any direction by the force of the very small weights, and as it were absorbing their fall. And if it had some one common movement, the same as that of the other weights, it would clearly leave them all behind because of its much greater magnitude. And the animals and other weights would be left hanging in the air, and the earth would very quickly fallout of the heavens. Merely to conceive such things makes them appear ridiculous.”

Ifs Body Would Be Earth Moving Science Fall Left Force Heaven Animal Common Behinds Greater Air Movement Weight Ridiculous Relative Gravity Magnitude Absorbing Fallouts Left Hanging

Author:Ptolemy

“It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.”

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

“On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.”

“Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.”

Feels Body Earth Lasts Turns Enjoy Lord Saws Growing Air Green Embrace Instant Lap Pillow Suspended Crucifixion Pigeons Slow Motion Voluptuous

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.”

Earth Ability Air Down To Earth Up In The Air Nonchalance

Author:Earl Wilson

“The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.”

Earth Spirituality Heaven Virtue Air Sea Sky Gardening Jupiter Abode

Book:The Pharsalia of Lucan

Source: The Pharsalia of Lucan

“What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.”

Earth Christian Air Blood Sea Taste Eating Skins Bills British Luxury France Marshes

Author:John Gay

“Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.”

Light Eye Earth Heaven Darkness Sun Air Flower Elements Glory Golden Thee Rays Rooted Eagles Fringe Dwelling Noon Sunflower Disk

Book:The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir

“The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for granted; you feel that Creation is going on in your sight. You see things in the high air that you do not see farther down in the lowlands. In the high country all objects bear upon you, and you touch hard upon the earth. From my home I can see the huge, billowing clouds; they draw close upon me and merge with my life.”

Feels I Can Country Hard Character Home Earth Hours Taken Air Creation Objects Huge Bears Draws Seasons Sight Clouds Granted Landscape Day To Day Taken For Granted

Author:N. Scott Momaday

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