#earth

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#america #attracting #earth #over #people

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#bespeaks #ceased #earth #ignorance #knows

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#come #earth #felt #going #i

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#could #crisp #deliver #earth #ever

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#good #heavenly #minded #people #some

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#always #attainment #condition #earth #essential

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#heaven #liberty #little #men #tyrant

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#beautiful #climatic #driven #earth #maintains