“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.” HomeEarthNamesNationsChanceCitiesSkinsPraiseGreenHere And ThereWorkshopsGreen Earth Book:The Poems of Basil Bunting Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting
“This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones” LittlesI CanEarthFacesLandStonesSkinsBonesDustPatches Author:Ralph McTell
“The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water, and soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple. Quite simply, they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, and the only source of materials and tools.” HumansWellsEarthSpiritualWaterHuman BeingsAbilityCreativeOur LivesAirPlanetsMaterialsSourceDependsToolsSkinsBasesWell BeingApplesSoilSurroundBe CreativeOur PlanetBiosphere Author:Freeman Patterson
“Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.” MayHomeEarthPovertyQuietDignitySkinsUnconsciousWorn Author:Bessie Head
“... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.” StillsLightEarthFacesMovingFormFeltMorningAirTreeRiversSkinsPatternsCaughtSurfaceFlawsCracksStillnessFrozenArrestedMarbleRippleSerpentReservoirsWaterfallsLooking DownHares Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh