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“That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.”

People Age Earth Humanity Dark White Levels Buddhism Noise Dark Ages White Noise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.”

Made Age Earth Past Creatures Regard Errors Library Former Preserves Shelves Succession Lively Living Creatures

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".”

Men Has Beens Age Earth Faces Jesus Christ Christianity Dying Jesus Christ Philosophical Noble Believer Enlightened Face To Face Newton Pascal Most Philosophical

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.”

“Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'”

Men Age Earth Christian Moving Heaven Moral Lord Enemy Hell Glory Devil Spite Word Of God Preacher Assault

Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh

“Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.”

Men Age Earth Three Hundred Towers Two Towers

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.”

Country Age Earth Next Water Cutting Tree Land Harmony Tired Blow Soil Canada Continents Foreigners Altered Drains Short Time Blown Away Sod

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.”

Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

“Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.”

World States Whole Age Earth Fall Grows One Thing Weakness

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.”

Age Earth Return Evolution Passing Passings Nightmare Butterfly Incapable Nero

Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

“Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.”

Has Beens Reason Age Earth Century Pride Balance Ego Mass Destruction Reasonable Collectives Delicate Twentieth Century Missiles Mass Destruction Neurosis Age Of Reason

Author:Marion Woodman

“Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.”

Age Earth Young Nature Secret Pages Golden Sage

Author:Richard Henry Stoddard

“Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.”

Men World Home Age Earth Heaven Land Pride Spots Beloved Unchanging Revolving

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.”

Knows May Littles Age Earth Heaven Humility Eternal

Book:First and Fundamental Truths

Source: First and Fundamental Truths

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

“A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.”

Way Believe Age Earth Records Impossible Intellect Balanced Fossils Literal

Author:Francis Crick

“Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.”

World Age Earth Beautiful Half Divine Flower Bird Innocent Golden Useless Butterfly Beautiful Things Wiser Joyous Golden Age

Book:Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes

Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes

“Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.”

Age Earth Grows Journey Heavy Dull

Book:The Plays of William Shakspeare

Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare

“The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.”

Age Earth Heaven Nations Cities Crime Divine Conscience Impulse Heaven And Earth Right Conduct

Book:Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

Source: Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

“We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.”

World Use Age Earth Values Future Property Rounds Stealing Estates Inheritance Heirs Round World

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.”

Ifs Men Feels Made Stills Age Earth Universe Belief Heaven Space Cases Humility Approach Arrogance New Earth

Author:Rachel Carson

“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.”

Home Age Earth Lasts Death Universe Duty Breaths This Life Remembered Regions Coming Of Age Infinity Splendor Apprenticeship

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.”

People States Age Earth Planets Easier Thousand Hundred Harmony Ancient Purity Sublime Our Planet Living On Auras Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.”

Made Age Earth Secret Meditation Conditions Lows Ideals Ancient Population Technique Purity Discovering Auras Ancient Egypt Density Atlantis Population Density

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality.”

Humans Stills Reality Age Earth Process Climate Change Pity Chemicals Dominance

Author:Paul J. Crutzen

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.”

Heart Age Earth Cold Needed Intellect Old Age Vain Ireland Skepticism Glowing Pouring Credulity

Author:Lydia M. Child

“What a glorious spectacle is that of the labor of man upon the earth! It includes everything in it that is glorious. Look around and tell me what you see, that is worth seeing, that is not the work of your hands and the hands of your fellows;--the multitudes of all ages.”

Men Looks Hands Age Earth Seeing Labor Fellows Glorious Multitudes

Author:Alfred William Howitt

“You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.”