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“We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.”

Earth Sea Mountain Built Roots Towns Train Rose Plant Passing Passings Permanent Burned Mist Trembling Prehistoric

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life

“And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.”

Earth Sea Son Bears Plant Slave Wave Columbia Be A Slave

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose

“So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.”

Men Fall Sea Land Bears Bird Angel Garden Plant Extraordinary Spending Treasure Desert Sunshine Sheep Bees Lilies Pouring Squirrels Land And Sea

Author:John Muir

“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.”

World Humans Wells Given Stars Born Natural Animal Sea Land Planets Depends Civilization Creatures Relation Plant Contemporary Well Being Natural World

Author:Chellis Glendinning

“From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.”

World Walks Sea Feet England Plant Bones Englishmen Deck Skeletons

Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

“No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.”

Life Facts Reality Alive Sea Bird Plant Cells Live Life Poetic Realism Entity Insects I Am Alive

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.”

Life Is Certain Natural Principles Sea Elements Bird Built Fundamentals Plant Fundamental Principles Natural Elements Sea Birds

Author:Myles Munroe

“A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree.”

Humans Different Tree Sea Rocks Garden Standing Plant Cells Migration Articulation Seaweed

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“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.”

“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

“We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.”

“We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.”

Party Pieces Sea Dancing Plant Passing Passings Strings Genes Bees Organisms Dna Insects Viruses Back Again Mammals Heredity Genome Tugging Great Party

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays