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  • NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station. -- James Lovelock
  • The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. -- Jessamyn West
  • Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. -- Walt Whitman
  • O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16) -- William Ernest Henley
  • Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. -- Sitting Bull
  • Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down. -- Ethel Waters
  • Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning. -- Joy Harjo
  • I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow was the Final Dawn, the last sunrise before the Earth and Sun are reshaped into computing elements. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions. -- Yayoi Kusama
  • Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! -- Sitting Bull
  • We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life. -- Donella Meadows
  • When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth. -- Joy Harjo
  • Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. -- James A. Baldwin
  • And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. -- John Donne
  • O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me. -- Apollonius of Tyana
  • Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things. -- John Jewel
  • I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. -- Anne Lamott
  • You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too. -- Kevin A. Ford
  • Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. -- Sun Tzu
  • There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell! -- Patricia Sun
  • Wine is earth's answer to the sun. -- Margaret Fuller
  • The sun does what it does because the earth tilts. -- Vijay Seshadri
  • The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her. -- Hafez
  • The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated. -- Michael Schumacher
  • Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth. -- Hafez
  • The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. -- Honore de Balzac
  • This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals... -- Walt Whitman
  • The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. -- Arthur Rimbaud
  • Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers. -- Alice Oswald
  • By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth. -- Harry Behn
  • The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one. -- Edward Abbey
  • Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
  • Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth. -- Martin Luther
  • Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars. -- Dogen
  • The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • ... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it. -- Charles Dickens
  • If the doctor cures, the sun sees it but if he kills, the earth hides it -- Proverb
  • But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? -- Khalil Gibran
  • It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd. -- Terry Eagleton
  • The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began. -- Tom Hanks
  • Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth... -- Seja Majeed
  • Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth -- Seja Majeed
  • The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. -- Steve Fowler
  • The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts. -- George Meredith
  • When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars. -- Alfred the Great
  • The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence. -- Wade Davis
  • Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think. -- Hildegard of Bingen
  • If there was a bridge between the Sun and the Earth, that would be a wonderful road to hell! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Every time I see a smiling person on earth, I feel the warmth of the Sun in the sky. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline. -- Tecumseh
  • The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. -- Luc de Clapiers
  • The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
  • all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth! -- Frederick Franck
  • [The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening? -- Lawrence M. Krauss
  • For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. -- Robert Breault
  • On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years. -- James A. Michener
  • Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? -- Taslima Nasrin
  • The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything. -- Ziggy Marley
  • Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun. -- Dean Koontz
  • My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth. -- Jimmy Cliff
  • To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin". -- Robert Bellarmine
  • Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo. -- Archibald MacLeish
  • Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider -- Marisha Pessl
  • Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun. -- Seth Shostak
  • To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon. -- Alan Hovhaness
  • Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success. -- Ken Livingstone
  • Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
  • The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture. -- Pope Paul V
  • Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago. -- Ursula Goodenough
  • On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. -- Aeschylus
  • To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun. -- Thomas Browne
  • After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines. -- John Milton
  • Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. -- Alice Sebold
  • It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth. -- M. Carey Thomas
  • Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun. -- Libba Bray
  • Enough scraps and rocks and countries are conveniently distributed across the face of the earth so that the sun still always shines on something British -- Pamela Marsh
  • ...a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground... -- John Geddes
  • The naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun's kiss glorying, And quivers in the sunny breeze. -- Julian Grenfell
  • The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? -- Edwin Markham
  • Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth?the sun, the moon, the stars?with perfection, and yet we don't trust Him to manage our lives! -- Yasmin Mogahed
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  • For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast. -- Kesh
  • As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre. -- William Shakespeare
  • Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. -- Ernst Mayr
  • The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth. -- Archimedes
  • If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest. -- Anne Sexton
  • This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing. -- Edward Young
  • The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth. -- Jeffrey R. Anderson
  • Earth is sad, Moon is shy, Sun is happy but wait a moment, I just forgot to tell you that I am the child of open sky. -- Santosh Kalwar
  • E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.) -- Galileo Galilei
  • The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins. -- Henry Beston
  • The earth is a planet that contains living things; I am a planet that contains living dreams! The earth revolves around the sun; I revolve around my passion! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the Earth is moving.' -- Junichiro Koizumi
  • I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still. -- Phil Spector
  • The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still. -- Martin Luther
  • Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear. -- Monique Wittig
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