#earth

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. ↗

— Rebecca West

#even #having #into #likes #nobody

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. ↗

— Patrick White

#again #began #beginning #called #developed

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#complicated #earth #humans #most #next

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#clear #earth #forests #living #most

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. ↗

— Lu Xun

#actually #begin #cannot #earth #exist

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

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

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#amongst #cannot #cosmos #earth #i

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#earth #exhausting #favors #indeed #our

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#fun #going #how #inherit #keep