“My favorite thing on earth is humanity because if it was not on earth then no one on earth would understand each other's pain and sorrow.”

— Shabdon Ka Jahan

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“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

“All the human kind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.”

François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop

Tout le genre humain n’est qu’une famille dispersée sur la face de toute la terre. Tous les peuples sont frères, et doivent s’aimer comme tels.
Bk. 9, p. 67; translation p. 162.
Les aventures de Télémaque (1699)

“they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the most beautiful
things
on earth?”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive!”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

1872(?), page 99
Echoing the 1816 hymn Come Ye Disconsolate http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/y/d/cydiscon.htm by Thomas Moore: "Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal."
John of the Mountains, 1938

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“In one variant, "On the day He created the heavens and the earth, Allah Almighty created a hundred mercies, each mercy equal to what is between the heaven and the earth, and He put one mercy on the earth by which a mother has compassion for her child and wild animals and birds for each other. On the Day of Rising, He will perfect them with this mercy."”

Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 420
Sunni Hadith

“For even if the life of my own Earth and this other Earth on which I stood had started out identically (and they might well have started out identically) there still would be, along the way, millions of little deviations, no one of which, perhaps, by itself, would be significant, but the cumulative effects of all these deviations eventually would result in a life and culture that would bear no resemblance to any other Earth.”

Clifford D. Simak book All Flesh is Grass

Source: All Flesh is Grass (1965), Chapter 12 (p. 123)

“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Conspiracy theories abound in many tragedies and injustices, but the greatest conspiracy of all is how human beings treat one another and other living things on Earth.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.”

Xenophanes (-570–-475 BC) Presocratic philosopher

Fragment 27, as quoted in Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments, trans. J. H. Lesher (University of Toronto Press, 2001), p. 124

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