"In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earth and letting it take care of you."
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"I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one."
"He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime."
"I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come."
"The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries."
"How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too."
"Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me."
"This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return."
"But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human."
"He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God."
"Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval."
"Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different."
"For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament."
"Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
"The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth."
"She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments."
"You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace"
"One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth."
"We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers."
"There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity."