#earth

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #francione #inspirational-quotes

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#earth #man #quickest #sharpest

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth? ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#am #believing #between #centre #church

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#capable #create #did #earth #either

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#ago #earth #glacier #god #great

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#bright #earth #firmament #gladly #him

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#color #earth #eyes #favorite #grass

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#earth #fire #human #human soul #most

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fantasy #inspirational #magic #inspirational

I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothloriene no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horselords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fanghorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystefied as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22. J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to W.H. Auden, June 7, 1955 ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tolkien #writing #men