Earth And Sky Quotes:

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Nature, Philosophical, Beautiful Nature, Marvelous Things

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

- Todd Burpo

source: "Fictional Character: Todd Bupro". "Heaven Is for Real", www.imdb.com. 2014.

topic: Real, Sky, Heaven, Earth And Sky

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

- Lord Byron

source: 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

topic: Lonely, Nature, Travel, Man And Nature, Beautiful Nature

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.

- John Lubbock

source: "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

topic: Education, Teacher, Nature, Inspirational Educational, Spiritual Nature

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky.

- George Herbert

source: 'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

topic: Sweet, Sky, Earth, Earth And Sky, Bridal

Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

source: Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

topic: Sky, Earth, Action, Earth And Sky

It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.

- William C. McCool

topic: Imagination, Earth, Feels, Earth And Sky, Beautiful Earth

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

- Henry Beston

source: Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

topic: Sea, Valleys, Earth, Earth And Sky, Gifts Of Life

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Nature, Men, Laughing, Healthy Living, Inspirational Earth

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

- James F. Cooper

topic: Lonely, Nature, Earth Day, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Love, Sky, Important, Earth And Sky

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

topic: Strength, Beauty, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

- Alfred Worden

topic: Home, Moon, Looks, Earth And Sky, Beautiful Earth

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

- Jules Verne

source: Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the Moon”, p.135, Jules Verne

topic: Clouds, Sky, Mountain, Earth And Sky, Fatality

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. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Motivational, Buddhist, Children, Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Vision

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Adventure, Garden, Wildness, National Parks

Forests are the lungs of our land......

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Land, Forests, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

- Neil Armstrong

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Eye, Space, Blue, Peas, Our Planet Earth

My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Stars, Life Changing, Sky, Earth And Sky, Ageless

We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

- William Anders

source: "The mysteries of sleepwalking and night fears are not solved", www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

topic: Moon, Important, Earth, Earth And Sky, Beautiful Earth

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

- John Updike

topic: Life, Rain, Sky, Water Of Life, Water Fountain

In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.

- Rene Daumal

topic: Men, Sky, Mountain, Manifold, Earth And Sky

As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.

- James Irwin

topic: Beautiful, Fall, Men, Earth And Sky, Fragile

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human phantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.282

topic: Life, Love Is, Arrows, Earth And Sky, Truth Love

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.

- Unknown

topic: Love, Inspirational, Good Morning, Inspirational Earth, Moon And Sun

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

- Charles Fillmore

source: Charles Fillmore (2012). “Metaphysical Bible Dictionary”, p.895, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Art, Cells, Earth And Sky

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.315

topic: Sky, Dew, Earth, Earth And Sky, Beads

I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).

- Fatima bint Muhammad

source: "Bihar al-anwar" by al-'Allama al-Majlisi, ol.2, p. 3,

topic: Tired, Sky, Space, Earth And Sky

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

- Edgar Mitchell

source: Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Home, Science, Moon, Light Blue, Our Planet Earth

Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.

- Frank Marshall Davis

source: Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

topic: Children, Night, Earth, Windows And Doors, Earth And Sky

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

- John James Audubon

topic: Nature, Children, Father, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.

- Loren Acton

topic: Life, Drama, Moving, Blackness, Our Planet Earth

I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.

- Rebecca Solnit

topic: Sky, Space, Desert, Social Relations, Open Spaces

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

topic: Encouraging, Nature, Spring, Inspirational Flower, Spiritual Nature

But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse reams alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.2

topic: Views, Sky, Circles, Allure, Earth And Sky

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Views, Sky, Earth, Earth And Sky

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

- Alexey Leonov

source: "How Camera Drones are Changing Our World (and us)" by Claudine Chicheportiche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.

topic: Believe, Home, Light, Light Blue, Earth And Sky

Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

- William Wordsworth

source: "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" l. 8 (1807)

topic: Love, Men, Air, Earth And Sky, Unconquerable

One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow.

- Dolores LaChapelle

source: Dolores Lachapelle (1984). “Earth Wisdom”, Finn Hill Art

topic: Wind, Sky, People, Special Gifts, Earth And Sky

Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.447, Penguin

topic: Beauty, Eye, Sky, Earth And Sky

Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness is indeed like living. The horizon drops away, bringing new sights, sounds, and smells from the earth. When one moves through the forests, his sense of discovery is quickened. Man is back in the environment from which he emerged to build factories, churches, and schools. He is primitive again, matching his wits against the earth and sky. He is free of the restraints of society and free of its safeguards too.

- William O. Douglas

topic: Moving, School, Adventure, Earth And Sky

I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.151, Penguin

topic: Light, Sight, Sea, Earth And Sky

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

- Charles Lindbergh

source: Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”

topic: Beauty, Adventure, Beauty Of Life, Open Fields, Plugs

John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style, John has made widely available the visions, the laws, and the numbers held within pure geometry and which integrate earth and sky, movement and form, cosmos and mankind.

- Robert Lawlor

topic: Law, Sky, Numbers, Earth And Sky, Uncomplicated

Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.

- Gaston Bachelard

topic: Wind, Sky, Roots, Earth And Sky

To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.

- Roberta Bondar

topic: Attitude, Reality, Space, Earth And Sky, Neurologists

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

- Ellen Glasgow

source: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”

topic: Love, Flower, Animal, Earth And Sky