“We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“We are of the earth,
To her we do return”
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Lyrics, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
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All we have built do we discern.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
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Context: With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day and wish’t were done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Talks in Saanen (1974), p. 71
1970s
Context: It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees, everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now, and we will have no wars.
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
"The Sea Close By" in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
“Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.”
Alan Weisman book The World Without Us
Source: The World Without Us
“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn, st. 14.
