Quotes with earth-cult

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  • Gore Vidal Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ban Ki-moon This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.
    Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (19 December 1937) quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom (2003) by Antonio Santi, p. 50
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bernard Malamud Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Rachel Carson Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Karl Popper Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Amy Lowell Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • C. V. Raman To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Barry Marshall To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Albert Camus To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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  • Federico Garcia Lorca To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Spanish poet and playwright (1898 - 1936)
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  • Richard Dawkins Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Matthew Arnold Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Billy Campbell Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Elizabeth Smart Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
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  • Carol P. Christ Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Douglas Adams We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.
    The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (2005)
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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