Best Earth Wisdom
10102 Earth quotes by 4564 unique authors
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We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will…
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again…
— William Beebe
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The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the…
— Donald C. Peattie
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Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that…
— Unknown Author
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Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!
— Philip II of Macedon
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no…
— Joseph Conrad
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the…
— Ann Radcliffe
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal…
— Louise Erdrich
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It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug you designed.'
— Jonathan Adler
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Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
— Peter Kreeft
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks…
— Helen Keller
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How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has…
— Orison Swett Marden
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A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly…
— Arianna Huffington
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Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.
— George W. Crane
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable…
— Unknown Author
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to…
— Oswald Chambers
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Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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