“The ownership of land is not natural. The American savage, ranging through forests who game and timber are the common benefits of all his kind, fails to comprehend it. The nomad traversing the desert does not ask to whom belong the shifting sands that extend around him as far as the horizon. The Caledonian shepherd leads his flock to graze wherever a patch of nutritious greenness shows amidst the heather. All of these recognise authority. They are not anarchists. They have chieftains and overlords to whom they are as romantically devoted as any European subject might be to a monarch. Nor do they hold as the first Christians did, that all land should be held in common. Rather, they do not consider it as a thing that can be parceled out. “We are not so innocent. When humanity first understood that a man’s strength could create good to be marketed, that a woman’s beauty was itself a commodity for trade, then slavery was born. So since Adam learnt to force the earth to feed him, fertile ground has become too profitable to be left in peace. “This vital stuff that lives beneath our feet is a treasury of all times. The past: it is packed with metals and sparkling stones, riches made by the work of aeons. The future: it contains seeds and eggs: tight-packed promises which will unfurl into wonders more fantastical than ever jeweller dreamed of -- the scuttling centipede, the many-branched tree whose roots, fumbling down into darkness, are as large and cunningly shaped as the boughs that toss in light. The present: it teems. At barely a spade’s depth the mouldy-warp travels beneath my feet: who can imagine what may live a fathom down? We cannot know for certain that the fables of serpents curving around roots of mighty trees, or of dragons guarding treasure in perpetual darkness, are without factual reality. “How can any man own a thing so volatile and so rich? Yet we followers of Cain have made of our world a great carpet, whose pieces can be lopped off and traded as though it were inert as tufted wool.”
“Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.”
“Nothing on earth can function successful outside the laws of the kingdom”
“Obedience Brings The Kingdom Of God To Earth”
“Education Is An Attempt To Discover Unwritten Laws That Governs The Earth”
“The Glory Of God On Earth Demonstrate The Uniqueness Of Heaven”
“Life on Earth. A classic case of bad timing.”
“I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, Everything I ve ever known is behind my thumb.”
“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.”
“Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever.”
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
“The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!”
“What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down”
“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here. [Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
“We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities”
“How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can t destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don t they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?”