Best earth & stones Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.”

World Reality Earth Grows Nature Accepting Tree Bed Rain Stones Streams Wilderness Aspire Conform Places In The World

Book:The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness

Source: The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.”

Earth Stars Dark White Fire Bed Rivers Stones Seeds Remembered Pockets Skirts Arranging

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“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”

Littles I Can Earth Faces Land Stones Skins Bones Dust Patches

Author:Ralph McTell

“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.”

World Way Firsts Earth Night Found Heaven Christ Wonder Creation Garden Stones Empty Thirds Died Graves Evening Dawn Gardener Semblance New Earth Daybreak

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.”

Earth Rich Sea Fairs Stones Pearls Bosoms Bowels

Book:Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

Source: Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

“Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.”

Kind Body Earth Virtue Stones Unions Affection Mutual Gravity Magnetic Conjunctions

Author:Johannes Kepler

“But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Said Enough Would Be Earth Force Virtue Degrees Stones Distance Resistance Attractive Sensible

Author:Johannes Kepler

“See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!”

“If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.”

Ifs Different Earth Form Sound Stones Seeking Woods

Author:Wumen Huikai

“Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.”

Men Earth Together Heaven Taught Stones Infinite Wings Charity Brilliant Burning Contemplation Ladders Jacob Transcending

Author:Juan Donoso Cortes

“Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.”

Years May Long Earth Life Is Sea Stones Roots Busy Miles Beach Streams Soil Throwing Coast Floats Minerals Strands Granite Boulders

Author:Bill Mollison

“The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.”

Men Earth Humanity Greatness Stones Great Men Priests

Book:Critical and literary

Source: Critical and literary

“The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.”

Mind Earth Energy Heaven Divine Stones Foundation Settling Operations Visible Lifting Pillars Omnipotence

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”

Ifs Way Children Sometimes Play Action Earth Death Serious Huge Stones Structure Profound Significant Graves Concrete Another Way

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

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