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“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him.”

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Author:James Gilmour

“Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.”

Men Earth Desire Fire Too Much Seeds Heavenly Weed Sparks Aspire Vicious Celestial Sprung

Author:John Dryden

“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.”

World May Done Earth Rich Too Much Tree Poet Sweet Flower Rivers Lovely Golden Pleasant Tapestry Brazen

Book:An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Source: An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition

“Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.”

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Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

Giving Heart Feelings Earth Literature Too Much Possession Unhappy Sensitive Sensitive Person

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.”

Needs Humans Made Facts Earth Social Too Much Bears Expectations Institutions Abandon Expecting Utopia Neurosis Marriage Love Social Institutions Pandas

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich