The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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 the Whole Sky.
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
Begin with yourself. There is no time to waste. It is your duty to do your part to bring God’s kingdom on earth.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school-masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
