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"How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?"

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain"

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
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"If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him."

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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
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"Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Earth

"The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!"

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