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.
-John Lubbock "John Lubbock"
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.
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.
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place.
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.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
Begin with yourself. There is no time to waste. It is your duty to do your part to bring God’s kingdom on earth.
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.