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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.

The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.

The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things.

The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of the earth. Activated by radiation, the matter of the biosphere collects and redistributes solar energy, and converts it ultimately into free energy capable of doing work on earth.

The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.

The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment. If you are not focused, you will pick up these energies.

There are certain areas that you can move to on the earth that will empower you and there are certain areas that can drain you.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

There are many things God wants to do on earth and in people's lives, but if someone doesn't leap in and answer the call to pray, it won't happen.

There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.

There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

There are no limits, and that applies to everyone on earth.

There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

There are places where life could exist. And we've already discovered that there's been life on certain planets that we've explored. That may just be algae or whatever, but life on Earth began a certain way, too.

There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?" -Mac

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

There are two kinds of individuals on Planet Earth who do not have beards - women and youth.

There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to

There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love.

The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.

Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets.