"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."

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"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."

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"I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything."

David Wenham, Australian Actor

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"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven."

George William Russell, Irish Writer

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"Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow."

Li Po, Chinese Poet

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"That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb."

Kathy Mattea, American Musician

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"The greenest of pastures are right here on earth."

Jennifer Donnelly, American Author

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"For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are."

Guy Hamilton, British Director

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."

Clifford D. Simak, American Writer

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"We were together. I forget the rest."

Love

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

Philosophy

"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."

Literature

"I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."

Nature

"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."

Spiritual

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

Man

"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"

Identity

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."

Future

"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"

Desire

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

God