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Earth Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible?…
- Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in…
- Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
- At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in…
- Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have…
- If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
- we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task…
- But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or…
- Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.
- And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and…
- Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth…
- Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you…
- Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
- If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,…
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