“I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human.” WayNeedsHumansSeemsEarthChallengesPerfectGrowing UpGrowingPlanetsMetsBoundariesInherentUpbringingPlanet Earth Author:David Simon
“Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.” HumansEarthWaterLossGrowingChangedPeriodsDemandDiversityFuelHuman HistoryEcosystemsFiberIrreversibleTimberFresh WaterDiversity Of Life Author:Gary Larson
“In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.” EarthHumanityGrowthTermGrowingBuddhismPercentConsequencePopulationDecadesCrowdedAurasPopulation Growth Author:Frederick Lenz
“The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities.” ShouldMayDoneEarthSpiritGrowthPrayerCuttingGrowingTreeSadnessTeachingTearsDestroyedIndianGrassNativeNative AmericanStewardshipNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American Earth Author:Wooden Leg
“And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.” ThinkingEarthSpiritReligionSongSpiritualityStarsVoiceKnowingGrowingWindConversationPlantCome UpGladThese DaysGardeningPotatoesFlowering Author:Opal Whiteley
“Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should use every just, reasonable and humane method at our disposal to rip-it out by its roots and then salt the very earth wherein it grew, so that no other such thing may ever again take root. Of course, we must also take great care to ensure that during this process, we ourselves do not become fascists in the fight against fascism.” MenShouldMayUseCareEarthPoliticalFightingCoursesEvilPoliticsProcessGrowingGrewRootsMethodIdeologyReasonableFascismSaltSmallestHumaneRipFascistsPolitical IdeologySaplings Author:Derek R. Audette
“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.” FeelsFirstsI CanEarthDeathGrowingColdQuietGravesThank GodDaisies Author:John Keats
“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.” ShouldEarthAsksAnswersNumbersGrowingPlanetsMoonAppealsSiteMarsSomewhere ElseAdvancing Author:Gerard K. O'Neill
“Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.” WayChildrenEarthMovingMotherGrowingMortalsGatheringSowing Book:Poems of George Meredith Source: Poems of George Meredith
“Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.” HumansEarthSimpleGrowingDifficultyTriumphHuman LifeProvidingTriumphantClouded Author:Barry Commoner
“Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.” LongEarthGoneGrowingBloodQueensGrapevine Book:THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.” NeedsMomentsEarthHoursGrowingMinutesEightSeedsKeep Going Author:Ruth Asawa
“The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.” WayHumansEnoughStoriesEarthScienceFoundSunGrowingProgressPlanetsCapableExpectationsRoundsSurfaceContraryRingsPhrasesDestroyingDishesDrsMouldBacteriaHuman KnowledgeSpacecraft Author:Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
“Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.” EarthStarsWatchesSunGrowingTreeMovementCreationPlanetsActivityOceanStreamsUnendingGrowing Tree Author:Maria Montessori