“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.” HumansHas BeensEarthUniverseExistenceAttentionConditionsCenturyDemandRelationEnvironmentalRageCeaseAbandonWillingnessParticipationAssaultAutisticLiturgy Book:Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth
“See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.” WorldEarthPrideBirthLateAdultsTradeIllEnvyRageMonstersPregnantPaleWombAvariceSlothPawnsChaste Book:Quarles' Emblems Source: Quarles' Emblems
“They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.” ThinkingMenStillsEarthDiesHeavenGriefWatchesRichWiseSeaMoonTrainCalmRageMelancholyHeirsMirthMajestic Book:1914 & Other Poems Source: 1914 & Other Poems
“The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?” IfsMenWorldEarthCreaturesConstantStrikesRagePhenomenonLightningSingle ManThunderstorm Author:Kalki Krishnamurthy