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“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.”

Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

“Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.”

Men Doe Moments Earth Cry Birth Casts Naked Abandon Lamentation

Book:Natural History: An Account by a Roman of what Romans Knew and Did and Valued

Source: Natural History: An Account by a Roman of what Romans Knew and Did and Valued

“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.”

“Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.”

Needs Humans Made Facts Earth Social Too Much Bears Expectations Institutions Abandon Expecting Utopia Neurosis Marriage Love Social Institutions Pandas

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible.”

Men Firsts Doe Book Whole Earth Spirit Order Opinion Destiny Bible Concern Rhythm Abandon Fulfilled Idle Calendars Genealogy

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier