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“I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.”

World Years Long Earth Order Air Sky Average Desert Novelists Dry Fifty Valleys Construction Long Ago Peers Venture Other Worlds Pilgrim Telescopes Astronomers Chile Pristine Rainfall

Author:Brad Leithauser

“Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?”

Years Believe Doe Two Facts Use Earth Fall Grows Accepting Flower Years Ago Garden Miracle Plant Seeds Phrases Two Years Why Not Beans Two Years Ago Radishes

Author:Dorothy Day

“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.”

“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”

“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.”

“It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.”

Years Earth Millions Taken Fine Likes Tunes Suitable

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.”

People Ifs Feels Years Able Earth Alive Personality Praying I Pray Staying Alive Understand Me

Author:Lil B

“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.”

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.”

World Years Earth Left Circles Privacy Arctic Icy Plums Disenchantment Disenchanted

Book:Fireside Travels

Source: Fireside Travels

“When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.”

“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

“To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.”

Years Believe Persons Earth Christian Jesus Community Huge Years Ago Invisible Leap Historic Leap Of Faith Christian Community

Author:Richard Rohr

“She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.”

People Trying Years Earth Heaven Conformity

Author:Mary Webb

“The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.”

World Years Earth Courses Rooms Existence Millions Thousand Spots Thousand Years Germs

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.”

Knows Years Believe Earth Belief Felt Water Dark Sweet Cold Pure Bosoms

Book:Men, women, and places

Source: Men, women, and places

“Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if it were a mere stopover for refueling, or even worse, characterize us as barbarians who would ransack their own home.”

Ifs Years Home Might Earth Imagine Mere Climate Change Treated Aliens Barbarians Descendants

Author:Paul J. Crutzen

“Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.”

Years Earth Influence Years Of Life

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.”

People Years Earth Couple Mars

Author:Buzz Aldrin

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