“Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.” EarthBitsFictionEconomicStreetsWallIntegrityResponsibleFaithfulFollyStewardshipAccuracySuperbCalculatorsScribesBookkeepersBookkeeping Author:Thomas Berry
“No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven.” MenEndsHandsEarthChristianHeavenHellForeverHolyAuthorityDevilAll ThingsMadnessAbsolutesScriptureStatementsHeightReasoningFollyOppositionWord Of GodSubmitHoly ScripturesTrue WisdomBeginnings And Ends Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh
“The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.” IfsMenHumansReasonEarthAnimalSupportPlanetsSucceedVanityFollyDestroyingMechanismPersistOrganismsIngeniousRemakesSustenanceHuman Animal Author:Edward Abbey
“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.” KnowsMenWorldMayMadeEarthFacesGivenSportsSinFiveSeaSkyFairsBlindNeighborWitPhrasesFollyWoeDwellingDecreeDwelling Place Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.” IfsWayGivingFirstsIdeasEndsWould BeEarthFormReligionGonePrejudiceAncientDeeperInsightFollyNew IdeasThreateningFoeBetter Life Book:The Greek Way Source: The Greek Way