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“When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.”

Ifs Want Mind Persons Moments Helping Problem Eye Earth Together Remember Lying Night Stars Clear Sea Fields Students Summer Solve Gravity Want U Magnet Looking Down Summer Nights

Author:Jack Kornfield

“A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite”

Thinking Men Giving Kind Earth Water Sea Fashion Rivers Fishes Boat Symbols Lakes Fishing Bites Interfere Hook Good Will Occasional Peace On Earth Deep Down Orderly Bait

Author:Robert Ruark

“God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.”

Ifs World May Earth Found Water Sea Creatures Rivers Fishes Boat Features Lakes Fishing Deep Water

Author:Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

“I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself”

Looks Earth Loses Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Look Up Lakes Fishing Feeding Frenzy

Author:Joseph Monninger

“A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart”

Heart Earth Form Sound Water Sea Movement Return Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Infinity Veins Variation

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.”

Earth Hell Pieces Sea Rivers Bounds Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Restraint Grind Dams

Book:Leavings: Poems

Source: Leavings: Poems

“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.”

“I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.”

World Earth Universe Speak Heaven Sea This World Boundless

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.”

Thinking Knows Men May Real Soul Earth Sea Sky Achievement Servant Heroism Backsides

Book:The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

“The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!”

Earth Lying Sea Sky Lows Rain Drinking Heavy Usual Drains Dense Surplus

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

People Earth Water Pleasure Wonder Sea Travel Track Ships Streams Up And Down

Book:Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

Source: Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

“I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

“Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?”

Hands Earth Nature Sea Please Taste Fruit Curious Covering Flocks Bounty Spawn

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.”

Real Earth Sea Fields Clean Boxes Bags Farms Tasty Real Food

Author:Suzanne Somers

“The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.”

Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave

“We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.”

Ifs Ends Earth Sea Sky Resources Careless Prodigals Squandering Sea And Sky Wastefulness

Author:Catherine Crook de Camp

“Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.”

Ifs Different Earth Nations Fate Sea Army Foundation Ships Shakes Invincible Zenith

Book:Speeches of William Jennings Bryan

Source: Speeches of William Jennings Bryan

“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.”

Ifs Wells Earth Moving Voice Sea Deeds Noble Gleam Noble Deeds

Author:Pindar

“Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.”

“The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out a third of the population. There are angels that come down and wipe out a third of the population and then another angel will come down and wipe out a third of all the animals living in the sea and another angel will come down and wipe out all the vegetation on the land. They are some vengeful individules, in Revelations, the angels. There is a lot of destructive capacity in an angel's being.”

Stories Earth Animal Rich Sea Land Materials Angel Capacity Thirds Down And Population Revelations Destructive Wipe Down To Earth Vegetation Vengeful

Author:Misha Collins

“As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.”

Men World Way War Earth Lord Air Sea Crafts Mortals Boards Sail Sailing Sinking Milky Way Admiral

Book:White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

“Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.”

Men World Done Earth Power Sea Wind Seasons Storm Endless Over It Dominion Earthquakes Endless Life

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.”

Eye Earth Heaven Liberty Sea Sky Bounds Woe Headstrong

Book:The Comedy of Errors: Third Series

Source: The Comedy of Errors: Third Series

“The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.”

Men Doe Wisdom Earth Sea Stones Treasure Diamond Pearls

Author:Saadi

“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”

“Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”

“The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart.”

Source: A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness

“Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!”

Earth Water Sea Righteousness Rasta

Book:The Future Is the Beginning: The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley

Source: The Future Is the Beginning: The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley

“It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.”

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

“With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.”

World Earth Sea Sweet Arms Tales Thee Charm Our World

Author:Lord Byron

“The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.”

Earth Spirituality Heaven Virtue Air Sea Sky Gardening Jupiter Abode

Book:The Pharsalia of Lucan

Source: The Pharsalia of Lucan

“What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.”

Earth Christian Air Blood Sea Taste Eating Skins Bills British Luxury France Marshes

Author:John Gay

“Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.”

Earth Women Sea Beast Wild Beasts

Author:Menander

“All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.”

Love Humans Whole God Earth Heaven Space Love Is Sea Type Infinite Notes God Love Flames Realms Broads Sparks Harmonious Human Love

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.”

Ifs Men Wisdom Earth Politics Individual Stars Justice Economy Fire Rights Sea Overcoming Liberalism Individual Rights Strongholds

Author:Lucan

“Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.”

Giving Looks Helping Earth Night Sun Meditation Sea Rivers Angry Faults Tolerance Pity Generosity Modesty Tenderness Covering Furious Humbleness Generosity And Giving Giving Help

Author:Rumi

“From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.”

“Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.”

Earth One Thing Air Sea Companion Adam Dominion

Book:The Shadow of an Agony

Source: The Shadow of an Agony

“With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.”

Needs Humans Earth Turns Understanding Technology Sea Land Population Farms New Technology Human Population

Book:The act of life

Source: The act of life

“Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.”

“To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.”

“You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.”

Book Earth Sea Sky Land Spring Bird Plant Fishes Useless Beast Insects Sermons

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061

“The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.”

World Long Has Beens Earth Water Sea Land Meetings Ancient Shore Ancient World Land And Water

Book:The Edge of the Sea

Source: The Edge of the Sea

“Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire.”

Earth Desire Fire Sea Sky Harm

Book:The Secret Circle: The Initiation and The Captive

Source: The Secret Circle: The Initiation and The Captive

“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.”

Men Littles Light Earth Universe Force Bits Black White Animal Sun Fire Sea Wind Moon Little Bit Connected Dust Swimming Cosmic Salt Good And Bad Men Women Black Or White Polarity

Author:Suzy Kassem

“There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There are at least a million different types of rocks/minerals as there are species of birds or monkeys. To believe we are the only "intelligent beings" on this earth and beyond is ignorance. The possible configurations of lifeforms that could be created from a single atom are infinite. There are at least a billion people on this earth, and no two faces look the same. It is very arrogant to assume that we have seen all of God's miracles.”

“The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.”

Earth Left Growing Sea Depends Healthy Ocean Pops Bottles Plastic Cigarette Trash

Author:Zoe Helene

“When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?”

Ifs Bigs Earth Faces Suffering Heaven Sea Wind Mad Rage Threatening Swollen

Book:Titus Andronicus: Third Series

Source: Titus Andronicus: Third Series

“Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions of life are normal. Planet Earth is dynamic and evolving. Climate changes are cyclical and random. Through the eyes of a geologist, I would be really concerned if there were no change to Earth over time. In the light of large rapid natural climate changes, just how much do humans really change climate?”