--- title: "7 Earth Self Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Earth Self quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Earth Self sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6be/h-p-lovecraft-1408_life_how-little-does-the-earth-self-know-life_104061.png" --- > [“How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft/how-little-does-the-earth-self-know-life-and-its-extent-how-little/) [H. P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6be/h-p-lovecraft-1408_life_how-little-does-the-earth-self-know-life_104061.png) > [“It, the self, is in fact the only alien in the entire Cosmos. The modern objective consciousness will go to any length…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walker-percy/it-the-self-is-in-fact-the-only-alien-in-the-entire-cosmos-the-modern/) [Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walker-percy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2a/walker-percy-1958_cosmos_it-the-self-is-in-fact-the-only-alien-in_1156002.jpg) > [Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dowd/any-human-being-exists-only-as-a-member-of-the-wider-community-of/) [Michael Dowd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dowd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79e/michael-dowd-45272_air_any-human-being-exists-only-as-a-member_1886957.jpg) > [By this the Earth it self, which lyes so near us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hooke/by-this-the-earth-it-self-which-lyes-so-near-us-under-our-feet-shews/) [Robert Hooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hooke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b52/robert-hooke-33958_quote_by-this-the-earth-it-self-which-lyes-so_2128969.jpg) > [And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/and-the-earth-self-balanced-on-her-centre-hung/) [John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-milton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb0/john-milton-191_balanced_and-the-earth-self-balanced-on-her-centr_2336840.png) > [“The earth-self observing the Cosmos and trying to understand the Cosmos by scientific principles from which its self is excluded is, beyond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walker-percy/the-earth-self-observing-the-cosmos-and-trying-to-understand-the/) [Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walker-percy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a74/walker-percy-1958_cosmos_the-earth-self-observing-the-cosmos-and_2559987.png) > [Does anyone else realize how bad earth has become? How self-centered ppl r? Where have the fighters gone too? Is courage now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kat/does-anyone-else-realize-how-bad-earth-has-become-how-self-centered/) [Kat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/caf/kat-21373_better-person_does-anyone-else-realize-how-bad-earth-h_2581003.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth-self/#itemlist", "name": "Earth Self Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "H. P. 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How self-centered ppl r? Where have the fighters gone too? Is courage now weakness? Step up people, stand up. Im sick and tired of people not caring. Be the better person you were put on this earth to be. Fight for what you have. Love everyone around you, no matter what they have done to you, forgive them. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE. 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