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“Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent to vanquishing all foes. Where would I possibly find enough leather With which to cover the surface of the earth? But (wearing) leather just on the soles of my shoes Is equivalent to covering the earth with it. Likewise it is not possible for me To restrain the external course of things; But should I restrain this mind of mine What would be the need to restrain all else?”

Ifs Needs Should Mind Enough Would Be Earth Courses Space Mines Overcoming Shoes Surface Buddhist Should I Unlimited Foe Covering Leather Unruly

Author:Shantideva

“Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.”

World Earth Christianity Century Planets India Population China Surface Twentieth Century Fractions Persia

Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.”

Way Earth Turns Black Surface Poetry Is

Author:Osip Mandelstam

“But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea.”

World Earth Rooms Gone Sea Land Right Now Waste Surface Plenty Heavenly Fifth Tanks Drains

Author:David Berg

“Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.”

Should Believe Earth Environment Lays Environmental Surface Poison Silent Spring Insecticides

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants.”

Made Facts Earth One Day Plant Surface

Book:Infra Structures

Source: Infra Structures

“People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!”

People Ifs World Persons Stills Different Earth Given Issues Feet Land Objects Fit Areas Size Surface Texas Squares Cents Texan

Author:Michael Coren

“Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified let alone cultured or had their genes sequenced, so really that microbial realm is a mystery.”

Has Beens Earth Mystery Surface Realms Genes Microbes

Author:Paul Davies

“It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.”

Seems Earth Interesting Surface Brilliant Horizon Sunlight New Horizons Interesting Places

Author:Neil Armstrong

“The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.”

People Ideas Earth House Interest Higher Meetings Raised Surface Spheres Reach Out Layers Roof Steeples Thickness

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature, or by accidental heat. And it is not to be thought that light bodies are escaping to the surface of the universe while they are carried upwards, or that they are not attracted by the earth. They are attracted, but in a less degree, and so are driven outwards by the heavy bodies; which being done, they stop, and are kept by the earth in their own place.”

Matter Done Body Light Earth Universe Degrees Heavy Surface Driven Heat Escaping Lighters Being Done

Author:Johannes Kepler

“There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.”

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)

“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Earth Artist Three Behinds Knowing Feet He Man Creatures Dancing Inspired Leaving Surface Tales Print

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.”

Humans May Character Feelings Earth Found Existence Human Nature Judgment Errors Surface Sentiments Metals Concealed Sandy Precious Metal

Book:Essays and aphorisms

Source: Essays and aphorisms

“The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.”

Earth Three Community United Class Land Produce Industry Surface Labour Owners Divided Application Machinery Cultivation Labourers

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.”

Ideas Earth Method Surface Architecture Landscape Artificial Landscape Architecture

Author:Lebbeus Woods

“Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.”

Years Firsts Earth Form Simple Records Surface Billions Organisms Fossils Ladders Living Organisms

Book:White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

Source: White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

“The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems”

“Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.”

Knows Giving Earth Left Term Water Planets Moon Standing Surface Absence Lovely Atmosphere Colour Contrast Looking Back Starks Desolate

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.”

“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!”

World May Doe Ideas Matter Enough Earth Beautiful Life Is Wish My Own Existence Return No Matter What Mere Surface Justify Gestures Fabric Sentimental

Author:Frank O'Hara

“Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.”

Earth Heaven Lines Surface Oneness Distinction Division Imaginary Globes Life Death Imaginary Lines

Book:Records of Later Life

Source: Records of Later Life

“... 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.”

“The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.”

Men World Years Children Earth Lying Energy Wealth Progress He Man Depth Surface Treasure Civilized Immense Psychics Constructive Noticing Infancy Unnoticed

Author:Maria Montessori