#earth

Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove. ↗

— Alan S. Kesselheim

#law #native-american-wisdom #age

I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#always #assertive #attracted #been #confidence

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#farthest #flower #move #pick #star

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. ↗

— Sylvia Earle

#connected #drink #drop #earth #every

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. ↗

— Ilya Ehrenburg

#could #cover #earth #grass #green

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#earth #effects #how #national #national security

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#chemistry #contribution #earth #energy #fear

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#elves #man #middle-earth #age

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#appear #determining #difficult #distance #earth

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗

— Huston Smith

#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth