#earth

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#basic #biological #challenge #earth #ecosystem

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#blink #earth #eye #go #here

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ↗

— Robert Frost

#about #anything #earth #funny #funny thing

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#believe #better #earth #else #lie

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #candles #earth #going #i

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#else #found #gift #i #known

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#earth #except #humanity #nothing