For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not even one man’s greed.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. 

We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

But the fact is no one knew the existence of this universal force, though it was there along with the Earth! The force was operating even when man was unaware of it.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Certainly it is a heaven upon earth to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

From birth man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty if he wished to drop the Earth and creep away, but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All because I love you. All because you love me.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Buildings too are children of Earth and Sun.

Here is a test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it, that's my religion.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century, than in all of previous human history.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Men, at most, differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

For the Eye altering alters all, The Senses roll themselves in fear, And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Earth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well on the surface of a gas covered planet, going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

You see, most people think Great God will come from the sky, Take away everything and make everybody feel high, But if you know what life is worth You would look for yours on earth.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine, and reveres others as divine.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

The Angel that presided o'er my birth / Said Little creature formed of joy and mirth / Go love without the help of anything on earth.'

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless as we grow when feeling most.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Though earth is one, the plants vary depending on the seeds sown. The womb of mother symbolizes mother earth. As is the seed of thought sown in it, so is the fruit it yields.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer, independent reality exists, the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth, would still be there if no one was looking.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.

If every man on Earth could take with him on death even a handful of mud from the Earth, there would have been nothing much left and mud would have been rationed at so many ounces per head!

Beware the sleeping dragon. For when she awakes the Earth will shake [On China].

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

Gravitation has existed on earth since we do not know when. It had its origin along with the Creation of the Earth.