Earth
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.