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“I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who I am. My heart belongs in the country. I’m a farmer, and I was shaped in t...”
“It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution...”
“Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a god that gave birth to Earth, this is only partially correct. Although Earth was originally created...”
“God’s glory is revealed through you to fill the earth”
“The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them.”
“..it is helpful to think of yourlife not in terms of work but in terms of music—particularly a symphony. A symphony, traditionally, hasfour parts to it—four movements, as they’re called. So does Li...”
“The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only ...”
“Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can’t take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.”
“The main purpose of our time is to establish God’s Kingdom on this earth.”
“Again Sam’s genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And ...”
“In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoir and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.”
“The pure whiteness, dazzling in the sun, was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Who was I to spoil it? Snow falls. Earth says: Here's a gift for you. And what do we do? We shovel it....”
“I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.”
“You’re telling me that CERN dugout millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?”Kohler shrugged. “Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.”
“The planet is finished with us, at this point -”
“The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.”
“A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth’s position in the universe!”
“Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.”
“Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.”
“What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?”
