"Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving."
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"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
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"It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't."
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"Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now."
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"The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees."
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"By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain."
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"The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed."
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"Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union."
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"For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly."
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"Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im."
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"A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere."
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"The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction."
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"You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth."
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"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment."
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"Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic."
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"The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories."
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"Let's suppose we all just materialized on Earth and there was a bunch of potatoes on the ground, okay? There's just six of us. Only six humans. We come into a clearing and there's potatoes on the ground. Now, my instinct would be, let's everybody get some potatoes. "Everybody got a potato? Joey didn't get a potato! He's small, he can't hold as many potatoes. Give Joey some of your potatoes." "No, these are my potatoes!" That's the Republicans. "I collected more of them, I got a bigger pile of potatoes, they're mine. If you want some of them, you're going to have to give me something.""
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"Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings."
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"I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'."
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"I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus."
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