Earth Quote by Alan Weisman Download Open image “But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.” — Alan Weisman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earth Ghost
All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts…it is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant all the… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Ghosts are a perfect example of how the human world is limited by its own knowledge. Your kind doesn’t believe in them because you… — Annalise Grey Copy Share Image
“The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth--one that nature is trying to heal.” — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to… — Alan Weisman Copy Share
“Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“Puszcza, an old Polish word, means “forest primeval.” Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, the half-million acres of the Białowieża Puszcza contain Europe’s… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“In recent years, a green burial movement has protested formaldehyde, which oxidizes to formic acid, the toxic in fire ants and bee stingers, as… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“In the days when money was backed by its face value in silver or gold, there were limits to how much wealth could flow around the world. Today, it's virtual money that the bank lends into existence on a computer screen. "And unless the economy continually expands, there is no new flow of money to pay back that money, plus… — Alan Weisman Copy Share
“Missing, however, are nearly all fauna adapted to us. The seemingly invincible cockroach, a tropical import, long ago froze in unheated apartment buildings. Without… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
All of us humans have myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple,… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep… — Alan Weisman Copy Share
“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire,… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation. 2. Man-made wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. 3. Exposure to man-made electricity. 4. Eclipsing of the Sun by the International Space Station (ISS), satellites, airplanes and jet aircraft contrails (chemtrails). 5. Eating food forced grown using… — Steven Magee Copy Share
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image