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  • The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee. -- Emily Bronte
  • Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. -- David Sarnoff
  • Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. -- Thomas Merton
  • Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. -- Albert Schweitzer
  • Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
  • A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. -- Russell Baker
  • God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. -- Jeremy Taylor
  • The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
  • Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. -- Charles Lindbergh
  • And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God. -- Jamey Johnson
  • The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. -- Edward Steichen
  • The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth. -- Michael Leunig
  • Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. -- Pearl Bailey
  • I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth. -- Joe Barton
  • I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible. -- Brian K. Vaughan
  • The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace. -- Malcolm X
  • The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans. -- Paul Johnson
  • No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. -- Henry Miller
  • Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. -- Edward Steichen
  • Man, not the earth, makes civilization. -- Ariel Durant
  • Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins. -- Augusta Jane Evans
  • Man is on earth as in an egg. -- Heraclitus
  • I am still the fastest man on earth. -- Asafa Powell
  • Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
  • Justice is the great interest of man on earth. -- Daniel Webster
  • My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth. -- Christoph Waltz
  • God created heaven on earth but man created hell. -- Santosh Kalwar
  • The best friend of earth of man is the tree. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • ... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar. -- Anne Sexton
  • In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth. -- Laurie Lee
  • My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees. -- Shailene Woodley
  • Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man -- Chief Seattle
  • God is about to eliminate the white man from this earth. -- Malcolm X
  • He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God. -- Billy Graham
  • She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. -- John Green
  • If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man? -- Laozi
  • Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth. -- Michael Fox
  • Aikido is the Way and Principle of harmonizing Heaven, Earth and Man. -- Morihei Ueshiba
  • The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. -- Lou Gehrig
  • I say it every day - I'm the luckiest man on earth -- Marc Anthony
  • To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland. -- Democritus
  • I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me. -- Ray Lewis
  • Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man. -- Henry Beston
  • The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do. -- Henry Ford
  • Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving. -- Homer
  • Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed. -- Joseph Prince
  • The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth. -- Malcolm X
  • The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible. -- Wally Hickel
  • There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden. -- Joseph Hertz
  • Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth. -- Joseph Campbell
  • The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man. -- Henry Beston
  • Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore. -- Lord Byron
  • Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. -- Pliny the Elder
  • The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts. -- Victor Hugo
  • Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth? -- Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing. -- Karl Kraus
  • God has given every man, 120 years of life on earth. It yours to possess. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth . -- Clifford D. Simak
  • Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity. -- Zygmunt Bauman
  • There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man. -- George R. R. Martin
  • The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man. -- Dorothy Parker
  • The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.] -- Ovid
  • Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon, -- James Irwin
  • Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. -- David Sarnoff
  • All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. -- James Randolph Adams
  • God has given every man, 120 years of life on earth. It is yours to possess. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man. -- T.C. Boyle
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  • There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day. -- Donal Ryan
  • I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be. -- Jack Kerouac
  • When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth. -- Roberto Clemente
  • Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young. -- Charles Mackay
  • I think Elvis is the sexiest man to ever walk the earth, I love him. -- Britney Spears
  • The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth. -- Albert Schweitzer
  • And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. -- Bill Knott
  • Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. -- Ian McHarg
  • When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake. -- Francine Mathews
  • And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate. -- Dodie Smith
  • No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth. -- Agnes de Mille
  • We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves. -- Gail Tsukiyama
  • The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. -- Robert E. Sherwood
  • A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it! -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D. -- Lester Sumrall
  • There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat -- Terry Southern
  • Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man. -- Homer
  • Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. -- Paulo Coelho
  • A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth. -- Abraham Verghese
  • A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. -- Paul Claudel
  • Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth -- Albert Schweitzer
  • While I think the earth is warming, I don't think that man-made causes are the primary factor. -- Ken Buck
  • There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. -- Homer
  • There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. -- Joseph Addison
  • And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut? -- Robert Bly
  • We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist. -- Sufjan Stevens
  • The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells. -- William Wordsworth
  • When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it. -- Frank Bettger
  • Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. -- Matthew McConaughey
  • This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth. -- Robert Hayden
  • The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all. -- Gaston Leroux
  • What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way? -- H. G. Wells
  • Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im. -- Zora Neale Hurston
  • Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. -- James F. Cooper
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