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“My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!”

Persons Doe Earth Certain Wonderful Directors Mark Green Musical Including Arrangements Cherries Chores Green Earth Wonderful Person

Author:Brett Somers

“Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.”

Source: The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII

“When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.”

Way Has Beens Two Earth Used Religion Mark Grass Thirty Clay Blades Altars Lumps Cultivation Blades Of Grass

Author:Dogen

“The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.”

Play Earth Lying Sea Sky Creatures Ocean Mark Blue Bounds Rounds Clouds Wide Regions Blue Ocean

Author:Bryan Procter

“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”

Source: The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning

“As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.”

Long Earth Mankind Messages Fairs Window Mark Secure Bless Guests Bores Dove Relics Ark

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter

“Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell; Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.”

Humans Eye Earth Form Sky Color Flower Daughter Mark Delight Smell Seeds Charm Providence Elegance Human Eyes

Author:William Cowper

“Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.”

Men Earth Water Air He Man Fame Mark Smoke Obtaining Foam Canopy

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.”

Has Beens Earth Mark Scar Polite Could Have Been

Author:David R. Brower