The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
My struggle is harsh and I come back with eyes tired at times from having seen the unchanging earth, but when your laughter enters it rises to the sky seeking me and it opens for me all the doors of life.
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The good Earth — we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
On our earth we can love truly only with suffering and through suffering!
More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.
Men occupy a very small place upon the Earth.[translation by Katherine Woods]
