#earth

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

#consumed #each #earth #exhausted #forests

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child? ↗

— Dorothy Nolte

#earth #joy #joys #lighten #like

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#beneath #bottom #crust #earth #election

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show. ↗

— Jon Secada

#covers #during #earth #fire #i

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#dearest #earthly #entwined #hopes #union

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#big #brush #building #choose #construction

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#blood #body #bread #change #create

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women. ↗

— Susan Powter

#damaging #earth #eliminates #every #half

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right. ↗

— Jacqueline du Pre

#beautiful place #being #bore #earth #feeling

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite. ↗

— John C. Reilly

#earth #feeling #kind #peaceful #quite