"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."

Earth, Force, World

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"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."

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"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."

Ted Shackelford, American Actor

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"I'm the audience's representative on earth."

Michael Caine, English Actor

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"It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon."

Kate Chopin, American Author

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"When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

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"Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist

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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

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"Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes."

Brian Walker, American Inventor

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"As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains."

Nicolas Malebranche, French Philosopher

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"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."

Robert Crippen, American Astronaut

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"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."

Land

"The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset."

Education

"Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities."

Work

"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."

Love

"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves."

Opportunity

"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion."

Religion

"One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels."

Happiness

"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."

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"Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world."

Knowledge

"My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon."

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