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“Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.”

“When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.”

World Earth Water Lines Elements Ocean Eternal Lows Meetings Compromise Tides Primeval

Book:The Edge of the Sea

Source: The Edge of the Sea

“the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.”

Earth Water Fire Air Elements Islands Irresistible

Book:The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

Source: The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

Long Made Earth Fall Water Music Air Figures Fame Moon Rounds Active Graves Decent Strings Strokes Woven Tenors Saturn

Author:Abraham Cowley

“My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!”

Light Earth Water Fire Magic Air Food Taste Glory My Family Weight Cooking Our Family Meat Dry Culinary Wet Masculine Wheat Seductive Velvet Airy Flour Stout Dumplings

Author:Robert P. T. Coffin

“Since, by your greatness, you Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor, As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.”

Men Should Earth Heaven Water Poor Sun Rich Greatness Comfort Goodness Clouds Dry Barren Rich Man

Author:Cyril Tourneur

“Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth The Sabbath resting comes, Gathering the sons of toil and care Back to their peaceful homes; And, like a portal to the skies, Opens the House of God, Where all who seek may come and learn The way the Saviour trod. But holier to the wanderer seems The Sabbath on the deep, When on, and on, in ceaseless course, The toiling bark must keep, And not a trace of man appears Amid the wilderness Of waters--then it comes like dove Direct from heaven to bless.”

“Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.”

Men Earth Water Air He Man Fame Mark Smoke Obtaining Foam Canopy

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.”

Running Earth Turns Water Sweet Drink Worship Spring Labor Down And Plant Fruit Noble Sweat Flood Toil Gardener Upside Down Food And Drink True Worship Deepness

Author:Julian of Norwich

“Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.”

Source: The Face of War

“In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.”

Knows Years Believe Earth Belief Felt Water Dark Sweet Cold Pure Bosoms

Book:Men, women, and places

Source: Men, women, and places

“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

“It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?”

Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives

“until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?”

Earth Water Fire Air Masters Elements Air And Water Water And Fire

Author:Eloise Lownsbery

“Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.”

Earth Form Force Water Keys Mars Frozen Latent

Author:Frans Lanting

“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.”

Knows Believe Earth Spiritual Belief I Believe Difficult Water Wonder Tree Sky Elements I Believe In Firm Firm Beliefs

Author:Bill Blass

“The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.”

Men Earth Values Given Parent Water Opinion Gold Contrary Useless Vain Best Things Abundance Folly Silver Scarcity All The Best Gold And Silver

Book:Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

Source: Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

“I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.”

Men Want Earth Interest Water Saws Cutting Air Land Objects Planets Concern Witness Vietnam Veteran Memorial Polished Want To Travel Air And Water Vietnam Veteran Geologic Time

Author:Maya Lin

“I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.”

Earth Mother Water Animal Company Taken Oil Damage Mother Earth Creeks Oil Companies

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.”

Needs Hard Earth Together Mother Water Feet Land Hard Work Protect Roots Court Wings Radio Commit Stations Covenant Mother Earth Descendants Radio Stations Fins Land And Water

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.”

Humans Has Beens Earth Water Environment Wind Civilization Creating Patterns Desert Cycles Drought Dams Deforestation Human Civilization Urbanization

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.”

“Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.”

Should Earth Water Reactions Chemicals Precious Gifts Chemical Reactions

Author:Janine Benyus

“Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the ocean or desolate regions on Earth's surface. So why do movie meteors have such good aim?”

Earth Water Ocean Percent Aim Surface Regions Seventies Extinction Desolate Meteors

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.”

Doe Earth Lasts Death Causes Fear Water Steps Fire Air Mines Instruments Structure Fatigue Last Day

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.”

Use Earth Grows Water Practice Stones Constant Rings Worn Dripping Dripping Water

Author:Ovid

“Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter; And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.”

Needs Use Earth Water Race Vision Path Clear Flower Mountain Spring Daughter Seasons Excited Multiple Folds

Book:The Less Deceived

Source: The Less Deceived

“The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.”

Earth Form Sound Water Born Fire Blood Rocks Color Arms Heavy Flesh Shoulders Sensuality Sensual Crystals Thighs Flicker Supple

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.”

“I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.”

Thinking May Littles Earth Young Heaven Water Filled God Love Take Me His Love Jerusalem Surpassing

Book:Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters

Source: Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters

“Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.”

Men States Earth Turns Water Hours Broken Eternal Satisfaction Pursuit Restless Forethought Earthly Things

Author:Charles Spurgeon

Should Earth Water Imagine Air Becoming Walking Capacity Flying Thinker Swimming Dreamer Imagine That Load Idle Learn To Fly

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It doesn't matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.”

Matter Earth Universe Water Existence Ocean Lovely Plenty Dependent Soup

Book:Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

“Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.”

Heart Children Earth Spirit Mother Waiting Water Morning Creation Birth Empty Moved Filled Silent Breathing Cradle Like A Mother Breathing Life

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.”

World Real Earth Water Fire Air Land Depends Models Labor Enormous Chosen Complexity Divides Real World Classification Taxonomy Labor And Capital

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.”

Men Children Earth Water Sun Tree Flower Creatures Bird All Things Stones Relation Finals Fishes Cosmos Fishing Rainbow Insects

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.”

Running Earth Water Mountain Flow

Book:The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.”

“The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.”

Earth Beautiful Water Land Desert Eden New Earth

Book:Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About

Source: Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About

“Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.”

Mind Soul Body Earth Moving Water Lines Fire Air Cosmos Straight Lines Orbit

Author:Sallust

“The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.”

Made Earth Force Water Air Sky Building Sacred Breathing Holiness Necks Worn Living Things Here And Now Imbibing

Author:Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

“The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.”

Source: Boundless Healing: Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body

“As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.”

“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.”

“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.”

“Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.”

Humans Long Problem Earth Faces Water Resources Environmental Temporary Buried Consumption Fossils

Book:Killing the Hidden Waters

Source: Killing the Hidden Waters

“The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”

Earth Waiting Water Rain Roots Environmental Grass Strain

Book:Collected Poems, 1917-1982

Source: Collected Poems, 1917-1982

“And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!”

Source: Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction

“Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit!”

Source: Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydro-geological and atmospheric systems, turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, degrading that 'flower bed'-which is the earth, our dwelling place.”

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