Best skins & earth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.”

Home Earth Names Nations Chance Cities Skins Praise Green Here And There Workshops Green Earth

Book:The Poems of Basil Bunting

Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting

“This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones”

Littles I Can Earth Faces Land Stones Skins Bones Dust Patches

Author:Ralph McTell

“The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water, and soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple. Quite simply, they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, and the only source of materials and tools.”

“Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.”

May Home Earth Poverty Quiet Dignity Skins Unconscious Worn

Author:Bessie Head

“... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.”

“Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.”

Earth Life Is Force Elements Skins Altered

Author:Frans Lanting

“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”

“The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.”

World Earth Skins Ancient Wounds Scar

Book:The Identity of France: History and environment

Source: The Identity of France: History and environment

“I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large.”

People Done Body Earth Secret Compassion Support Hair Skins Humanism Scar Toes Crooked Moles

Book:Red Suitcase: Poems

Source: Red Suitcase: Poems

“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?”

“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

“I like to have a connection with the elements and the earth. Rock is the skin of the planet, and you can learn something from the rock, but you need to communicate with element. You have to be part of the element, not fight it.”

Needs Earth Fighting Rocks Planets Elements Connections Skins Communicate

Author:Fred Nicole

“What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest”

Kind May Earth Progress Depends Cost Skins Riches Forests Soil Minorities Humankind Sustaining Stripping

Author:Jonathon Porritt

“Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true self.”

Source: The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment

“Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.”

Long Earth Secret Impossible Blood Long Time Skins Catastrophe Unbearable Boiling

Book:Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

“I believe we all have lists of shame. Long lists. We live with our constellation of shames quite privately. But they weigh us down. I wish I could abracadabra away shame. This is such a waste of our small time on earth. Our bodies are often the focus of shame. The shame of the body changing. Of the sexual body. Of the aging body. Not being able to do what you once could do. Even just looking at your skin as you age, the texture, the wrinkle, the sag, and somehow feeling ashamed and responsible for its changes.”

Believe Long Feelings Age Earth I Believe Wish Focus Skins Responsible Shame Aging All Time Ashamed

Author:Victoria Redel

“What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.”

Done Earth Realizing Audience Skins Social Media Far Away Depressing Single Word

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name.”

Knows Ideas Earth Names Rain Skins Claims Dust No Idea Sand Mars Chile Venezuela Rosa Paraguay

Book:Windows that open inward: images of Chile

Source: Windows that open inward: images of Chile

“It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.”

Feels Years Earth Joy Sound Air Mystery Land Century Sorrow Battle Skins Weight Smell Darling Counting Weighing Brushing

Book:Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

Source: Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

“Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.”

People Made Stills Earth My Own Morning Generations Skins Stuck Dust Soil Print Adam Dirt Spit Eden Specks

Book:An American Childhood

Source: An American Childhood

“Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.”

Giving Humans Self Happens Earth Moving Heaven Causes Human Beings Love Is Break Our Lives Movement Ego Skins Carrie Self Centered Without Love Break Out Heaven On Earth

Author:Huston Smith

“His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.”

Ends Body Running Earth Faces Dark Cold Beats Mouths Flow Skins Breaths Islands Streams Shore Cliffs Wrecks Washing Interruptions Unending Cabins Eyelids

Book:Foe: A Novel

Source: Foe: A Novel

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

Men Inspirational Earth Funny Environment Disease Skins Environmental Earth Day Green Earth Save The Environment Saving The Earth Conserving Environment

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion”

Long Earth Grows Gone Hair Sorrow Skins Sake Wander Wilderness Lions Joyful Stoops

Book:In the Skin of a Lion

Source: In the Skin of a Lion

“Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.”

“I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.”

Want Long Real Earth Felt Alive Mystery Streets Danger Ready Skins Angry Dumb Disorder Bangs Slap Breach Disarray Real Street

Book:Underworld: A Novel

Source: Underworld: A Novel

“It’s a risk I’m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction … you touch her skin and it’s the best skin you’ve ever felt, and no perfume on earth could be better than her smell, and you know you could never be bored with her because she’s interesting even when she’s doing nothing. Even without knowing everything about her, you get her. You know who she is, and it works for you on every level.”

Knows Happens Earth Felt Interesting Levels Knowing Risk Crazy Willing Skins Lifetime Smell Reactions Bored Perfume Doing Nothing Once In A Lifetime Knowing Everything

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't make sense how people on earth treat each other. It doesn't make any difference what language we speak. It doesn't make any difference what country we come from. It certainly doesn't make any difference what the color of our skin is. We are all children of God traveling on spaceship earth together.”

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