Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?
Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.
Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.
Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.
I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.
Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think. " He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system that is built and sustained by unheard music.
Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.
Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?
When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.
Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.
To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten the grip, loosen the hold, of economism, I believe, is a discussion of the sacred born out of our regard and compassion and intelligence for the earth and the creatures on the earth.