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"Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when I feel as though there is nothing we can do for elephants - I feel that the only good I am doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth."
"Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings."
"If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy."
"You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one."
"This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones."
"There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views."
"That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence."
"Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed."
"If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble."
"Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it."
"Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth."
"Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life."
"If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth."
"Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth."
"When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26."
"When you're enlightened, you don't have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that's a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally."
"We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet."
"The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made."
"Do well and right and let the world sink."
"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it."
