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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

“Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.”

Men World Night Speak Heaven Cities Hell Fire Four Land Strange Elements Core Symbols Burning Temples Burned Venom Burning Bush Four Elements

Book:A Canticle For Leibowitz

Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz

“What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.”

Earth Heaven Elements All Things Elsewhere

Book:Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume

Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume

“Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?”

Made Life Is Death Heaven Fire Inspire Equal Elements Spring Breaths Flames Immortal Fables

Author:Francis Quarles

“Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.”

Different Soul Together Heaven Natural Elements Selfishness Enjoyment Purity Different Things Yearning Natural Elements

Book:Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...

Source: Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...

“What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.”

Ifs Men Character Faces Heaven Chance Habit Taste Elements

Book:HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

“Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.”

Earth Speak Heaven Water Sin Blood Elements Murder

Book:The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

“Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.”

Light Eye Earth Heaven Darkness Sun Air Flower Elements Glory Golden Thee Rays Rooted Eagles Fringe Dwelling Noon Sunflower Disk

Book:The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir

“An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.”

Thinking Heaven Greater Sea Objects Elements Resistance Desert Proportion Pyramids

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.”

Humans Wells Earth Together Certain Heaven Middle Divine Elements Connected Aspiration Splits Ladders Celestial Crippled Divine Power

Book:Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition