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“The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.”

Facts Earth Mother Names Views Modern Ancient Greek Hypothesis Mother Earth Archetype Gaia

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.”

“As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.”

Men Earth Mother Universe Position Elements Illusion Importance Mere Valuable Tiny Supreme Arrogance Grain Framework Mother Earth Specks Sunbeams

Author:Ernst Haeckel

“The name Yunupingu means 'rock - rock that stands against time'. The name Yunupingu belonged to my grandad, like he was a hero in his time. It was passed down through the generations to my Father. It's a name that makes us understand who we are, where we're coming from and what our connections are to mother earth and the universe.”

Mean Earth Mother Universe Father Names Generations Rocks Hero Connections Who We Are Mother Earth

Author:Mandawuy Yunupingu

“I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.”

World Feelings Earth Remember Mother Pieces Around The World Mother Earth

Book:Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition

“Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to the new striving and suffering. And not merely "some day." Now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.”

Today Earth Mother Certain Suffering Tomorrow Thousand Strive Conviction Flats Mother Earth

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“Turtles remind us that the way to heaven is through the earth. In Mother Earth is all that we need. She will care for us, protect us, and nurture us, as long as we do the same for her. For that to happen, we must slow down and heighten our sensibilities. We must see the connection to all things. Just as the turtle cannot separate itself from its shell, neither can we separate ourselves from what we do to the Earth.”

Way Needs Long Happens Care Earth Mother Heaven Protect All Things Connections Down And Shells Sensibility Nurture Slow Down Mother Earth Turtles

Book:Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small

Source: Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small

“I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe.”

Mind Heart Action Earth Joy Mother Asks Peace Voice Beauty Divine Our Actions Togetherness Mother Earth

Author:Babatunde Olatunji

“We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.”

Should May Earth Mother Spirituality Honor Gratitude Mother Earth Hypocritical

Author:Radhanath Swami

“It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.”

People Earth Mother Healing Four Traditional Warning Ceremony Heed Mother Earth Save Mother Earth

Author:Dennis Banks

“The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.”

Care Earth Mother Father Former Obedience Heavenly Quarters Heavenly Father Mother Earth

Book:The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future

Source: The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future

“Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.”

Earth Mother Taken Materials Creatures Elites Mother Earth Hostage Raw Materials Living Creatures Uranium

Author:Petra Kelly

“Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.”

Way Giving Children Earth Mother Song Our Children Trade Mother Earth Giving Way

Author:Neil Young

“One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.”

Firsts Problem Law Environment Air Kings Economics England Burning Consideration Pollution Execution Penalties Offense Coal Death Penalty Mother Earth Save Mother Earth Air Pollution

Author:Glenn T. Seaborg

“No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in this together, my friends, the rich, the poor, the red, white, black, brown and yellow. We share responsibility for Mother Earth and those who live and breathe upon her ..never forget that.”

“I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.”

Heart Children Dream Running Earth Mother House Black Water Healing Sun Wind Mountain Forgotten Oil Cures Pool Galaxy Mother Earth Heirs

Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

“When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. we never forget them.”

Knows Earth Faces Mother Walks Forget Generations Feet Plant Never Forget Our Future Future Generation Mother Earth Save Mother Earth

Author:Oren Lyons

“Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.”

Ifs Giving Humans Hands Care Earth Law Mother Return Sacred Patient Seeds Abundance Giving Back Protective Respectful Covenant Mother Earth Human Hands Patient Care

Author:Marilou Awiakta

“Many native cultures believe that the heart is the bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth. For these traditions, the 'four-chambered heart,' the source for sustaining emotional and spiritual health, is described as being full, open, clear, and strong. These traditions feel that it is important to check the condition of the four-chambered heart daily, asking: 'Am I full-hearted, open-hearted, clear-hearted, and strong-hearted?'”

Source: The four-fold way

“The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.”

World Running Mother Night Rhythm Streams Veins Mother Earth Mother Nature Earth And Nature Blades Of Grass Leaves And Flowers

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.”

Ifs Should Mean Long Ends Able Earth Mother Sound Powerful Environment Achievement Sight Smell Wilderness Exquisite Vigorous Good Health Mother Earth Save Mother Earth

Author:Garrett Hardin

“The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.”

Men Should Earth Mother Environment Bed Should Have Honey Traps Tourists Mother Earth Save Mother Earth

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.”

Earth Mother Natural Wealth Deals Seeing Standards Resources Difficulty Increase Constant Population Abundance Midst Destined Mother Earth Standards Of Living Eco Save Mother Earth

Author:Wallace Carothers

“We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.”

Men Reason Earth Christian Mother Nature Existence Crisis Environmental No Reason Rejects Scholar Ecology Conservation Mother Earth Axioms Save Mother Earth Ecological Crisis

Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

“The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.”

Earth Mother Three Environment Hundred Wilderness Mother Earth Save Mother Earth Derogatory

Book:The Wooing of Earth

Source: The Wooing of Earth

“We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.”

Ifs Bigs Age Earth Mother Environment Planets Bills Collapse Ecology Projection Mother Earth Ecological Save Mother Earth

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.”

Has Beens Earth Mother Environment Buried Mother Earth Scarcity Save Mother Earth Malthus

Book:Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays

Source: Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays

“We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.”

“Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.”

Feels Heart Earth Mother Feet Healthy Mother Earth

Author:Sitting Bull

“Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you."”

Heart Earth Mother Gratitude Finals Curtains Mother Earth

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.”

Earth Mother Environment Within You Our Environment Mother Earth Interbeing

Author:Nhat Hanh

“All things are bound together. All things connect.”

Source: How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“Forests are the lungs of our land.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.”

Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.”

Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“We need to create a new paradigm of development and happiness that can generate a three-dimensional peace – peace with ourselves, peace with other people and peace with mother earth. Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.”

People World Needs Littles Earth Mother Three Development Changing The World Little Things Paradigm Mother Earth Peace With Others

Author:Anwar Fazal

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

“We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.”

World Needs Ends Problem Earth Mother This World Capitalism Destruction Currents Inequality Can Not Mother Earth Equilibrium

Author:Evo Morales

“God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.”

“The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.”

Source: An Agricultural

“Science has failed our mother Earth.”

Earth Mother Mother Earth

Author:Serj Tankian

“The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!”

Men Earth Mother Grows Cities Tree Flower Fruit Nostalgia Urban Leafs Mother Earth

Author:Juan Ramon Jimenez

“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.”

Life Inspirational Real Earth Form Mother Change Prayer Environment Communication Highest Insight Life Changing Within You Our Environment Mother Earth Interbeing

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!”

Eye Earth Mother Wife Tree Color Green My Favorite My Wife Grass Mother Earth Save Mother Earth Tree Of Life

Author:Casper Van Dien

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