"Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time.""
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"We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they."
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"I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves."
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"We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment."
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"I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth."
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"Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence."
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"Whenever someone says they believe the earth was created in 7 days, I grab a fossil and say, Fossil. And if they keep talking, I throw it just over their heads."
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"Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then."
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"Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake."
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"Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation."
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"Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!"
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"Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached."
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"The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest."
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"You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?"
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"Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!"
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"We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer."
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"There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached."
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"Remain true to the earth."
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"To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!"
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"Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth."
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