Diana Cyr, in "Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity", p. 10
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.”
Variant: I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
“What once sprung from earth sinks back into the earth.”
Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante,
in terras.
Book II, lines 999–1000 (tr. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.”
Fragment 27, as quoted in Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments, trans. J. H. Lesher (University of Toronto Press, 2001), p. 124
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Context: There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed. Wait until the chains are broken — until dungeons are not regarded as temples. Wait until solemnity is not mistaken for wisdom — until mental cowardice ceases to be known as reverence. Wait until the living are considered the equals of the dead — until the cradle takes precedence of the coffin. Wait until what we know can be spoken without regard to what others may believe. Wait until teachers take the place of preachers — until followers become investigators. Wait until the world is free before you write a creed.
In this creed there will be but one word — Liberty.
VII, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Context: That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
Source: The Last Temptation of Christ
