Earth Quotes
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There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth.
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I’ve wanted to go into space since childhood, and as I get older I’m increasingly inspired by the relationship between space and Earth. The more you learn about space, the more you understand how special Earth is as a planet and we need to be good stewards of our home spaceship because others are not easily accessible.
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Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.
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Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.
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The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion.
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.
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At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
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We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.
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I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.
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But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.
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Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth.
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What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
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I'm raising the question of whether focusing on the afterlife beyond history can unintentionally but tragically lead to the abandonment of this earth and this life.
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The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.
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By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
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You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
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No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven.
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We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.
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If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.
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The earth is blue like an orange.
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To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
