Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place.
-R. Buckminster Fuller "R. Buckminster Fuller"
Quotations
Earth
-R. Buckminster Fuller "R. Buckminster Fuller"
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.
-Bible "Psalm 24.1"
Your hills, O Earth, your snow-clad mountain peaks, your forests, may they show us kindliness… Impart to us vitalising forces that come, O Earth from deep within your body, your central point, your navel, purify us wholly.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
-Francis Thompson "Francis Thompson"
A disciple in training will comprehend this earth, the realm of death and the realm of the gods. A disciple in training will investigate the well-taught Path of Virtue, even as an expert garland-maker picks flowers.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 45"
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
-Marya Mannes "Marya Mannes"
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school-masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
-John Lubbock "John Lubbock"
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
-Bible "Genesis 22"
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
-Thich Nhat Hanh "Thich Nhat Hanh"
