The Earth is deep, and right to the heart it's alive. We…

“We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.”

— Orson Scott Card

“There is earth below your earth, a deep room where gas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow blood through a body.”

— Mathew Henderson

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of…

— Stephenie Meyer

It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Clockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around.…

— Cassandra Clare

To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it…

— David McCullough

“It’s not a test but a reminder. You’re still alive, and there are people who need you in their lives. Don’t shut them out.…

— Eve Langlais

Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually…

— Andy Webster

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names…

— G. M. Trevelyan

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

— Anne Enright

Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most…

— Meryl Streep

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

— Sherwood Anderson

While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

— Haruki Murakami

“You have to ask it something it knew when it was alive. People don't become omniscient just because they have keeled over.”

— Lish McBride