Altars Quote by Barbara Brown Taylor

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of…

— Gilbert Adair

It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

— Neil Armstrong

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

— Anonymous

For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.

— Wayne Muller

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine,…

— Stefan Zweig

God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

— James Irwin

“More recently, some of us have been able to infiltrate the new ethereal-wave system that now encircles the globe, and to travel around that…

— Margaret Atwood

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of…

— Charles Darwin

It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling.…

— Felicia Hemans

The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like…

— William Crookes