"What once sprung from the earth sinks back…" — Lucretius

"What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth."

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97 Quotes by Lucretius

Lucretius has 97 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great…
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small…
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

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More Earth Quotes

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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… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — 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… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — 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

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