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"If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it."
"Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal."
"She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth."
"You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have."
"On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else."
"Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man."
"For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung."
"Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals."
"Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame."
"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth."
"The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there"
"The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still."
"Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own."
"There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed."
"Christians are rare people on earth."
"A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal."
"She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles."
"I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth."
"Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth."
"I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently."
