#earth

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#air #around #below #dark #discontent

Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself. ↗

— Erin Gray

#basically #because #caring #characters #crazy

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#cannot #earth #heaven #masters #nor

There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#energy #ever #form #fossil #fossil fuels

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ↗

— Julien Green

#descends #earth #explorer #greatest #heart

I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter''s about butter carving in Iowa. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#all-star #butter #carving #cast #cast members

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ↗

— David Hare

#further #heaven #nearer #nothing #than

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#away #earth #explore #further #generation