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  • The earth is what we all have in common.

    Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint
  • There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.

  • Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • The thing that is incredible is life itself.

  • In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

    Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”
  • My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

    "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.
  • Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

    Home   Cities   Names  
    Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber
  • Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

    Men   Light   Earth  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

    Nature   Mountain   Green  
    1798 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye', l.102-6.
  • There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

    Life   Dog   Men  
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

    "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
  • The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

  • If you’re famous, I don’t — for the life of me — I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?

    Earth   Green   Firsts  
    "George Clooney's Rules for Living" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2013.
  • Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

    "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.
  • If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

    Water   Forgiving   Enemy  
    Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”
  • The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

    Fun   Green World   Oil  
  • Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  • The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

    Victory   Earth   Green  
    Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.221, Jazzybee Verlag
  • All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.

    Fate   Voice   Earth Day  
    "Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.
  • The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • 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?

    Feet   Literature   Earth  
  • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  • To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.

    Reality   Men   Suffering  
  • 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.

    Lonely   Nature   Travel  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

    Stars   Thinking   Moon  
  • I am in love with the green earth.

    Nature   Garden   Earth  
  • What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

    "Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017.
  • There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

    "Allen West: Liberals fear conservative blacks like me". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2013.
  • I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  • As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

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