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Earth Quotes by Henry Beston
- If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants,…
- Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
- It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.
- Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
- Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins,…
- The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole…
- The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.
- The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth,…
- Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
- We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in…
More Earth Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann