Quotes for: earth

Quotes for: earth

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya

Earth laughs in flowers.

One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.

You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun
Jacques Prévert

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.
Xenophanes

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The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

Cleopatra's nose: if it had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world, because it is resistant to us. Self-discovery comes when man measures himself against an obstacle.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Wind, Sand and Stars

Happy the man who observes the heavenly and the terrestrial law in just proportion.
Henry David Thoreau

Paradise on earth is where I am.
Voltaire

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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?
Henry David Thoreau

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso

A systematic revolution of basic concepts begins with Einsteinian science. In the very detail of its concepts a relativism of the rational and the empirical is established. Science then undergoes what Nietzsche called "an upheaval of concepts," as if the earth, the universe, things, possessed a different structure from the fact that their explanation rests upon new foundations. All rational organization is "shaken" when the fundamental concepts undergo dialectical transformation.
Gaston Bachelard