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"
Quotations
Earth
-Marya Mannes "Marya Mannes"
Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
-Hafez "Hafez"
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
-Francis Thompson "Francis Thompson"
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"
The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
This earth is a garden, The Lord its gardener, cherishing all, none neglected.
-Scriptures "Adi Granth"
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"
Peace be to earth and to airy space! Peace be to heaven, peace to the waters, peace to the plants and peace to the trees! May all the gods grant me peace!
-Vedas "Atharva Veda 19.9.14"
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"
