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“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.”

Men Believe Earth Mother Father Names I Believe Stars Secret Company Lord Sun Fire Air Mystery Return Chaos I Believe In Breathe Sole Womb Ineffable

Author:Aleister Crowley

“The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.”

Soul Body Earth Air Return Mortals Tied Reincarnation Descending

Author:Philo

“When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast, Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost; The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return; From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.”

Source: The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe

“At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.”

Littles Earth Greater Air Feet Return Pressure Smell Atmosphere Salt Parachutes

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

Needs Self Light Air Return Solitude Breaths Recovery

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“Inside the man all the elements that form the Universe and all the existing principles are interrelated: He touches the earth with the feet; with the arms the air and with the head the sky and through the Spirit he gets in touch with the Divinity, where he comes from and where he should return.”

Men Should Earth Form Spirit Universe Principles Air Feet Sky He Man Arms Return Elements Divinity

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.”

People Wells Has Beens Problem Home Today Natural Four Air Months Return Starting Illness Gas Neighborhood Los Angeles Leaks Natural Gas Respiratory Methane

Author:Ari Shapiro

“The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.”

Mind Body Lying Universe Poor Air Journey Return Dance Mysterious Dancer Weary Voyages

Author:Agnes de Mille

“I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.”

People Knows Night Fear Numbers Talking Gone Air Source Return Phones Posts Reporters Telephones Phone Calls

Author:Bob Woodward

“In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.”

Men I Can Done America Belief Voice Wonder Magic Air Century Return Flying 18th Century

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.”

“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”

Source: The End of the Affair

“Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.”

Left Behinds Steps Air Crime Return Scene Left Behind Uncanny Wreckage

Author:Aimee Mann

“Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.”

Dream Vision Air Revolution Return Balls Endless Glorious Paradox Looking Back Exile Looking Forward Elba

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?”

Said Moments Earth Mother Father Felt Waiting Laughing Air Arms Return Dare Warmth Peter Again And Again Nothingness Sweetness Suspended Augustus Up In The Air Come Back To Me Return To Me

Author:Kate DiCamillo