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die. Most people have funerals, and Some people are funerals!" | |
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Elias Penn-Smith
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| "An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate
who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by
keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What
thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty
ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art
styled emperor."" | |
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
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| "As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned
spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space - it will seem
increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the
human family." | |
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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| "Early things must be known to be loved: divine things must be loved
to be known." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her
zone." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Earth"s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with
God." | |
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Elizabeth B. Browning
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| "Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou
fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent,
and our nurse." | |
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Isaac Watts
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| "Earth?s crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pick
blackberries, And daub their natural faces unaware More and more from the
first similitude." | |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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| "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
winds long to play with your hair." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge
of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a
philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my
country."" | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no
sorrow that Heaven cannot heal." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not
believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners
they are, whether they know it or not." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the
"learned" find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while
the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that
no longer exists." | |
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Al Rogers
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| "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end
by destroying the earth." | |
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Dr. Albert Schweitzer
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| "One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk." | |
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Tshunka WITKO (Crazy Horse)
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| "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the
earth abideth for ever." | |
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The Bible
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| "Our Father which art in heavenStay there And we will stay on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty." | |
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Jacques Prévert
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| "The best investment on earth is earth." | |
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Louis J. Glickman
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| "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "The earth is the cradle of the mind ? but one cannot eternally live
in a cradle." | |
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Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
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| "The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine;
From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine." | |
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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| "The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on,
good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "The supreme reality of our time is ... the vulnerability of this
planet." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers,
and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who,
though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an
inhabited garden." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." | |
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Marshall McLuhan
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| "There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will
provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but
cultivate her soil in justice and in peace." | |
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William Bourke Cockran
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| "To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is
our only legitimate hope of survival." | |
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Wendell Berry
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| "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it
was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our
Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." | |
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Proverb
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| "We are here on Earth to do good for others. What the others are here
for, I do not know." | |
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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