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Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.


Ernest Dimnet

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The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.
RIVERA SUN Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She closed her eyes and wished that the earth would swallow her up.
NEIL GAIMAN Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
ANNE LAMOTT Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
MARCUS AURELIUS you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
HENRY MORTON STANLEY The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substanc...
ALBERT CLAUDE Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed...
NICHOLAS SPARKS For a mother is the only person on earth
Who can divide her love among ten children
And each...
ANON. “Tell her she's beautiful, not hot, remind her the good things she's done, not her mistakes, hug h...
ALFRED SANT Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.
VIET THANH NGUYEN Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Her sexuality wasn't coy or cute. She wasn't saucy; she was feral. Her very presence on the earth st...
C.D. REISS I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem upon her zone
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We stood in the sunshine of her being. Through her inexhaustible giving, we learned to give. Through...
YOLANDA KING The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup ...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on...
VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE It'll be impossible to protect Brittany for the rest of her life from all the other guys who want to...
SIMONE ELKELES Love is not for only One Day, Every Day is Valentine Day and may be actual Valentine day is not a da...
LOVE QUOTES FOR HER The mother-earth may not like
the way we preserve her...if any.
TOBA BETA Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft l...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; Earth felt the w...
JOHN MILTON O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;
Lie close...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What you love about her is her competitiveness, her fire and her spirit. More importantly is her uns...
DENNIS PIRON She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, ...
MARY MAPES DODGE There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.
STEPHEN KING The taste on her palate was pungent and rich, the flavor of woodlands and dark earth simmered in sun...
ALISON CROGGON A perfect unit is the Earth. Why do you persist in disremembering her with swords and boundary marks...
MIKHAIL NAIMY They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from he...
SITTING BULL See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burs...
CHARLES KINGSLEY And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The way she curls in my arms makes me feel like I’m the hero. I like being her hero. I like the wa...
KATIE MCGARRY What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, mighty scarce....
MARK TWAIN Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient eart...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI Celaena stared at the dark, tilled earth, a chill wind rustling her veil.

Her chest ached...
SARAH J. MAAS The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her sever...
JULES VERNE The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
GAMALIEL BAILEY Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear...
CHARLES DICKENS Aelin Galathynius smiled at her, hand still outreached. "Get up." the princess said.
Celaena re...
SARAH J. MAAS Lady of the silver moon
Enchantress of the night
Protect me and mine within this circle fa...
MADELYN ALT Four things a woman must do: Love her God, trust her God, deny her flesh, and lay the world to rest.
SUSIE L HILL This is a great opportunity for her. Megan is a good kid. She's very down to earth and not overly vo...
WARD MULLINS Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels."
Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her moth...
KAREN MARIE MONING There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance foo...
BOURKE COEKRAN To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH ...her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center o...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of d...
DOROTHEA MACKELLAR Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't make her whole life purpose her man. She understands ...
SHANNON L. ALDER The voids in her soul turned every touch of someone else into the reminiscent of his love inside her...
AKSHAY VASU Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on h...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Now that I know her, I admire her even more. She's a really great down-to-earth lady who's really op...
TONI COLLETTE I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Eart...
RAQUEL CEPEDA I'm a bit star struck really. But everyone's lovely here and so down to earth. Katy's a great charac...
LUCY-JO HUDSON I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybod...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
BIBLE When the rebel in her touched the rebel in him, and the rebel in him touched the rebel in her, their...
SHARON WEIL Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, M...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullen...
JOHN MILTON She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth tre...
NICOLE LYONS Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Love a woman, Not by her physical beauty And not the color of her skin, But love her what’s in her...
ALON CALINAO DY She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost am...
CASSANDRA CLARE Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don'...
JAY ASHER She was burned in multiple places over her body from her head to her toes.
GREGORY CLARK All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of h...
HERMAN MELVILLE ...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside he...
KELLIE ELMORE The woman is a reflection of her man's love. A well-loved woman sees the world through the lenses of...
ALEXANDRA PINTO Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.
DANA FULLER ROSS The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.
ARUNDHATI ROY Earth is here so kind [Australia], that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
DOUGLAS JERROLD It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, su...
STEPHENIE MEYER she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the...
PAULO COELHO The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility,...
MARGARET SANGER The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her...
NIKOLA TESLA But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with ...
VIRGIL She was very open. Both fascinating and down-to-earth at the same time. Her loss will be very diffic...
MASSIMILIANO DINDALINI And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, ...
BIBLE He knelt down beside her and slowly rubbed a soft, muculent mix on her bare skin like a sculptor at ...
MIRETTE BAGHAT Her spirit is so huge it would help me to hear her personality in her voice,
PERI GILPIN I gazed into her beautiful green eyes and her fear melted. A shy smile tugged at her lips and at my ...
KATIE MCGARRY Her name, said the Oracle, will this time be Ama, a female that sleeps in every one of us, Yin of Cr...
NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN This will avoid many divided efforts and differences that may occur.
HER HIGHNESS SHAIKHA SABEEKA Keeping quiet and negativity are the enemies of development and a disregard for every individual's r...
HER HIGHNESS SHAIKHA SABEEKA Many were keen to exercise their freedom of expression on this pressing issue, regardless if they we...
HER HIGHNESS SHAIKHA SABEEKA I am heartened by the prime minister's (Hon PJ Patterson's) comments about 'rupture in the circle' b...
HER EXCELLENCY MERLENE OTTEY I am Jamaican as any Jamaican can be.
HER EXCELLENCY MERLENE OTTEY Other people migrate everyday and decide to become citizens of the country where they live, and I do...
HER EXCELLENCY MERLENE OTTEY She was basically resting. She would come in and out of her rest, open her eyes, look around and go ...
BERNICE KING I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing ...
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ERNEST RENAN Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
ERNEST BENN Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
ERNEST BRAMAH Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a pleasant caf
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watchin...
ERNEST BECKER Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
ERNEST HOLMES One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH