#earth

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#earth #knows #like #poems #returned

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas? ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#dearth #derivative #done #had #ideas

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#agreed #been #call #deeper #divine

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#apostle #back #before #bible #birth

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#earthquakes #economy #geology #study #understand

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#clearly #earth #how #inappropriate #ocean

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ↗

— Thomas More

#anguish #bring #cannot #earth #heal

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#ages #also #arguing #both #demonstrated

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it? ↗

— Greg Dworkin

#countries #day #earth #earth day #mark

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. ↗

— Abba Eban

#declaring #earth #flat #flattened #had