#earth

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#beyond #earth #flower #hour #little

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#center #church #curved #death #down

Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#back #clear #defending #deserve #earth

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#creatures #desolate #dues #earth #fellowship

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway. ↗

— Sidney Buchman

#earth #gonna #i #inherit #told

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. ↗

— John Muir

#earthquakes #nature #order #yosemite #beauty

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ↗

— Buddha

#deeds #earth #good #good deeds #guidance

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#bone #earth #forms #longest #skeleton

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth. ↗

— Gary Busey

#earth #i #live #living #lot