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How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy...

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Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a flu...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...

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To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (...

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The air was motionless, carved, a block of warm copper fitting neatly around the earth, molded while...

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

The sole equality on earth is death.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourse...

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We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if w...

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What need does the earth have of us?

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Pope FrancisLaudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. T...

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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of ...

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...

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Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, ...

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It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is,...

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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Now the only way you can serve God on earth is by serving others.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My fath...

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If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind y...

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The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

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I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...

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The view of Earth is spectacular.

Ah earth you old extinguisher.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...

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The earth was a grave: our life was lent to it by its elements and had to be returned: a time came w...

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Saul BellowMr. Sammler's Planet

And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would ...

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Saul BellowMr. Sammler's Planet

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place ...

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My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex m...

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If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

Earth stuff, Mars boy.

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don'...

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A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...

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The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth...

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It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo wa...

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If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"The dragon was sile...

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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of t...

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What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit i...

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A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who...

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Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live wi...

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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence f...

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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

But Nature granted to gold and silver no function with which we cannot easily dispense. Human folly ...

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Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlin...

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And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not ...

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

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It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done.

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Ursula K. Le GuinFour Ways to Forgiveness

I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill,...

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We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are...

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Let us not, however, exaggerate our power. Whatever man does, the great lines of creation persist; t...

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Victor HugoThe Toilers of the Sea

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of mo...

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. . . distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communin...

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We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influen...

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Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Eart...

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And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

Then his singing paused, and he stood for a moment to cry out softly in the vernacular of the region...

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The Earth is what we all have in common.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...

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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...

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Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and ho...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent socie...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it wor...

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Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and ...

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Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like...

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I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which...

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How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for...

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William MorrisThe Beauty of Life: William Morris the Art of Design

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're her...

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The planet is finished with us, at this point -

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me...

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They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from wh...

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Who made the world I cannot tell;'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of wh...

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and se...

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On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single bo...

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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot ...

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No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed...

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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some ...

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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth...

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What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the ...

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