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.
This earth is a garden, The Lord its gardener, cherishing all, none neglected.
Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
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.
Begin with yourself. There is no time to waste. It is your duty to do your part to bring God’s kingdom on earth.
Peace be to earth and to airy space! Peace be to heaven, peace to the waters, peace to the plants and peace to the trees! May all the gods grant me peace!
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.
The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the 21st century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.
