“It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.” NeedsEarthLosesSubstance Author:Alexander McQueen
“The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.” WayHumansKindEarthFormMotherNaturalCreationSonMaterialsEnvironmentalSeedsSubstanceHumankindIncarnationRaw Materials Author:Hildegard of Bingen
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.” DreamBodyEarthHoursSleepSubstanceEncountersMusclesAllowingWakingGravityStirringNeuronsAbram Author:David Abram
“If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.” IfsEarthFallThreeForceAnimalMoonDistanceAssumingSubstanceFiftyFourthOrbitDensity Author:Johannes Kepler
“Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.” EarthNamesHeavenCommonWonderEssentialsTreatsMereSubstanceDistinction Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.” KindDifferentEarthConditionsEssentialsTraditionDetailsProofSubstanceCopiesDiverseVariationAncestryTracingSoundness Author:Frederic G. Kenyon