“Between heaven and earth, we find only a temporary abode.”
Buddha
“It’s useless for men to win the moon if they lose the earth.”
François Mauriac
“In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
Khalil Gibran
“The Earth is our mother: it gives birth to our bodies, then heaven gives them their soul.”
Marcus Pacuvius
“The world is full of lessons that teach us to be humble.”
Claude Michelet
“Through our personal commitment to the process of growth and change, each one of us has the power not only to transform our own life, but to contribute tremendously to the transformation of life on our planet.”
Shakti Gawain
“In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in the garden. When April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers.”
Khalil Gibran
“We were not put on this earth merely to eat and drink. We are here to purify our souls.”
Seneca
“To build is to collaborate with the earth, to leave a human mark on the land, changing it forevermore.”
Marguerite Yourcenar
“To be a man is to be responsible, to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry