The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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.
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 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.
Spring has come again. The earth is like a child who knows poems by heart.[Frühling ist wiedergekommen. Die Erde ist wie ein Kind, das Gedichte weiß.]
Someone once said that the earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.
