#earth

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#brook #change #earth #environment #history

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth. ↗

— Margaret Turnbull

#comes #down #earth #know #life

Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round". ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#energy #mass #people #quotes #world

I want to lose weight by eating nothing but moon pies, which have significantly less gravity than earthier foods such as fruits and vegetables. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#diet #earth #fruit #funny #gravity

The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows ↗

— Hope Mirrlees

#cows #dreaming #impenetrable-shadows #planet-earth #the-universe

Healthy Earth Equals Healthy Inhabitants ↗

— Laurel Marie Sobol

#land #sea #sky #equality

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#gardening #grace #labour #food

Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#frodo #middle-earth #friendship

Dude. Hot Bozo. Best nickname ever. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#cynthia-hand #funny #unearthly #funny

The earth must be flat – there's a dunce in every corner of it I travel to. ↗

— Bauvard

#flat-earth #funny #humor #stupidity #funny