...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: fear sleep death sorrow horror suicide earth mother depression misery escape terror
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
Kahlil GibranWe rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is either ignorant, a fool, or evil.
Moss CassTags: science inspirational environmentalism earth conservation
Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round".
T.F. HodgeTags: energy world people earth quotes mass
I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
Karl LagerfeldTags: humor funny fashion earth quote quotes label labeling chanel designer karl-lagerfeld down-to-earth
Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home
S.G. RainboltTags: humanity science-fiction earth colonization dear-sun-i-am-real
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
Olaf StapledonTags: man earth destruction star-maker
Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.
Criss JamiTags: world earth fools comprehension labels cosmos beyond
How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful
Mian MianTags: earth nature-of-love
Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.
Eric ChaissonTags: universe earth astronomy humankind
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