Quotes
Quotes about Earth
The dust of some is Irish earth, Among their own they rest.
Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on her hand, Can health, wealth, and long life command.
Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on her hand, Can health, wealth, and long life command.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.
There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.
Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society . . .
This is the last of earth! I am content.
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, After old age had and sad, Earth will slumber over us. [Lat., Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post pucundam juventutem. Post molestam senectutem. Nos habetit humus.]
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Love this Earth as if you won't be here tomorrow; show reverence for your Garden as if you will be here forever.
