Top 1200 Green Earth Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

I—What on earth just happened?” “Well, nothing on Earth, obviously.

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

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

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.

Allah is going to kill many today as He cleanses His Earth, and prepares those of us who will inherit the Earth after the Shaitan and the wicked ones are deprived of the Earth and life itself! Then those of us who survive, we will survive in righteousness.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.

Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.

think people get scared that they’re not going to be able to do it perfectly - they’re going to be criticized - they’re going to be like, “Well, I’m not totally green.” Well, you know what? At this point we don’t care... Just a shade of green is enough right now. Move a little bit closer towards this. Because the more people start moving closer and closer to it, that’s something that collectively makes a difference.

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

Sometimes you just have to trust the kids. The first glimpse of Wheelock Family Theatre's Shrek is a surprise. Instead of the round, green, smoothly computer-animated ogre of the movie, this Shrek is tall and hairy, with a lumpy green headpiece and mossy dreads. But as played by Christopher Chew in Wheelock's “Shrek the Musical,” this ogre was a hit with the children. they laughed and cheered and clapped in all the right places.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.