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Earth Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it…
- To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- The earth is what we all have in common.
- We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
- The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty…
- If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the…
- A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not…
- We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's…
- Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear /…
- But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way…
- All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have…
- The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of…
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
- ...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
- A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
- If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in…
- Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures…
- If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow…
- This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and…
- The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands…
- Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you…
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