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“Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.”

Self Earth Humanity Sun Revolution Destruction Turmoil Self Destruction Annuals

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.”

Ifs Turns Sun Blood Moon Eternal Destruction Harmony Contact Dragons Nerves Correspondence

Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

“Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.”

Men Sun Wonderful Destruction Blue Bones Finished

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction

“I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.”

World Believe Speak I Believe Natural Sun Ignorance Products Weakness Destruction New Things Natural World Depravity Plunder Principled Destruction Of Nature

Book:What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

“Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.”

Enemy Sun Destruction Rose Dawn Allies

Book:Survival In Auschwitz

Source: Survival In Auschwitz

“Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.”

Years Said War Religion Religious Sun Atheism Destruction Indian Temples Jealous Idols Persecution Egyptian Tribunals Religious Wars Religious Persecution

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.”

War Courses Heaven Prayer Cities Sun Fire Progress Disease Elements Destruction Rage Chains Demon Gates Lions Anarchy Fraud Arrested Potency Thunderbolts Gates Of Heaven

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.”

“We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.”

World War Earth Social Sun Destruction Environmental Chaos Transition Fourth Fifth Ongoing Colossal Convergence Environmental Destruction Times Of Transition

Author:Carlos Barrios

“All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”

Years Firsts Running Lasts Sun Saws Kings Tomorrow Honor Glory Draws Destruction Wit Yesterday Decay Our Love Everlasting Elders Elderly Making Time Hash

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.”

Men World Seems Earth Beautiful Sun Saws Sky Painting Destruction Blue Bones Finished Holes

Book:An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe