There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.
We can choose not to remember this day, but bones have strong memories. And earth never forgets.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
...humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.
Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth's power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.
...[F]or there are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had, and that was one of them.
And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
the gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology with the supernatural sanctions left out
Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations.
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Mientras el corazón lata y la carne palpite, no me explico que un ser dotado de voluntad se deje dominar por la desesperación.
Mientras el corazón lata y la carne palpite, no me explico por qué un ser dotado de voluntad se deje dominar por la desesperación.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere.
The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
