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- Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the…
- We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
- Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."
- Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.
- Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer…
- The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
- This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star,…
- In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime,…
- As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get…
- I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got…
- We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
- There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
- You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be…
- As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at…
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I…
- All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere…
- Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may…
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began…
- They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain…
- What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies…
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- 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