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"The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me."
"The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity."
"For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts."
"The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood."
"I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where."
"The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth."
"On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best."
"It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."
"The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it."
"I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity."
"The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited."
"The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man."
"Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine."
"There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth."
"Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth."
"Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?"
"The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good."
"The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting."
"You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content."
"There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth."
