"In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love."
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"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."
"May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass."
"Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it."
"Life on earth is inconceivable without trees."
"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."
"For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth."
"Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky"
"We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back"
"Is there intelligent life on Earth?"
"Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without."
"Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit."
"Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery"
"I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me."
"We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality."
"Earth is the insane asylum of the universe."
"Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being."
"If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning."
"I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war."
"...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven."