Earth Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

11 Earth quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck’s voice often turns toward the land that shapes our lives. In this brief set she weaves insight, compassion, and a keen eye for the everyday rhythms that bind us to the planet.

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On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of…

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Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human…

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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived,…

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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize…

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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind…

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When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape…

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

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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their…

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I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and…

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Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be…

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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I…

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“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,…

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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“Mind and body were well or ill together.”

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“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu”

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“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people…

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people,…

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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to…

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