It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
It is not light that we need but fire it is not the gentle shower but thunder. We need the storm the whirlwind and the earthquake.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive even the smallest task in music is so absorbing and carries us so far away from town country earth and all worldly things that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
Beethoven can write music thank God but he can do nothing else on earth.
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh let's put that sentence there let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair and its soul full of music breaks the air when the song of angels is sung.
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
I mean don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
Sometimes I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture the Earth in the meantime having changed its he will have the sun no longer before him but behind.
Your enjoyment of the world is never right till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace and look upon the skies the earth and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all as if you were among the angels.
Well I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion which has had a lot of money and power.
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.