The Mother Earth Quotes

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. — Ernest Jones

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. — Mother Teresa

Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself. — Vinko Vrbanic

In the beginnings, God Mother separates the earth from the heavens. — Stefan Emunds

To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them. — Seth Adam Smith

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born. — Nhat Hanh

The earth is our mother, it gives us nourishment, shelters us, and takes us back to her after we pass — Bryan Lankford

Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth. — Sitting Bull

Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor all with whom we share the Earth Walk in balance and beauty. — Robert Muller

The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things. — Laozi

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading. — Harvey Keitel

Share the heart of the Earth with humanity. Meaning mother earth and earth sprit. — Ilchi Lee

Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future. — Leonardo DiCaprio

watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel — Susan Wiggs

The appearance of a pest should be regarded as a warning from Mother Earth to put our house in order. — Albert Howard

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. — Arthur C. Clarke

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you
Lay your body down — Stephen Stills

The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother. — Dalai Lama

The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth. — Afrika Bambaataa

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb! — Munia Khan

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so. — Oprah Winfrey

The earth was actually shuddering. It was as if you were a baby and your mother was shuddering with cold. — Michael Shaara

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — Voltaire

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. — P. J. O'Rourke

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing. — George Meredith

Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness. — Santosh Kalwar

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.' — Mother Teresa

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth. — Raquel Cepeda

Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth. — Santosh Kalwar

The most comfortable place on earth is the arms of a mother. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes we just have to stop and feel the pulse of the Earth, the rhythm of the seasons and the internal voice that was once our childhood friend. — Fennel Hudson

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. — Anonymous

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth. — Guilherme Leal

Around, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo. — Archibald MacLeish

You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved. — Robbie Vorhaus

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. — Chief Joseph

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. — William Shakespeare

When the last female dies, the gateway to the earth closes to man. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts. — Anasazi Foundation

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth! — Mother Jones

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. — Steven Pinker

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! — Casper Van Dien

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else? — Jack Kerouac

When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live. — Marilou Awiakta

The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them. — Anasazi Foundation

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries. — Cormac McCarthy

The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity. — Dallin H. Oaks

I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart. — Anasazi Foundation

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings. — George Eliot

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. — Steve Fowler

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent. — Elizabeth Gaskell

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth. — John Trudell

The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles. — Karen Neches

For to be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father. — Kahlil Gibran

The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature's Mom. — Wes Adamson

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth. — Natasha Trethewey

Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward. — Anasazi Foundation

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind. — Frederick Glaysher

The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. — William Wordsworth

The earth is our grandmother and that technology has become our mother and that they both hate each other. — Sherman Alexie

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. — Petra Kelly

The Peace Panda Says ... Every day should be Earth Day!If we don't take care of mother earth,
She won't take care of us! — Timothy Pina

To be a mother, after all, was to know the most perfect fullness on earth followed by the most terrible emptiness. — Tiffany Baker

Roe Deer, when your spirit returns to the Great Earth Mother, thank Her for giving us one of your kind, that we may eat, Jondalar said quietly. — Jean M. Auel

Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect. — Orlando Bloom

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. — Manasa Rao

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. — Aeschylus

The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us. — Chief Joseph

Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola. — Francis Thompson

So the I.F. is spying on Earth."
"Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard."
"Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy. — Orson Scott Card

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth. — Beth Kephart

We are children of the Earth ... respect your mother. — Ralph Smart

The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate. — Paul Gilding

The mother-earth may not like
the way we preserve her ... if any. — Toba Beta

Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy. — Dan Brown

The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother's mother, on back to Mother Earth. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth. — Dennis Banks

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. — John Henrik Clarke

Mother Earth allows us to live and to walk on her surface, not the other way around. — Lawren Leo

When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. — Mitch Albom

Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now. — Nhat Hanh

Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us. — Amit Ray

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline. — Tecumseh

In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights. — Evo Morales

If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves. — Nirmala Srivastava

Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future. — Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. — Nhat Hanh

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower. — Rabindranath Tagore

Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child. — Debasish Mridha

The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father. — Lloyd Geering

Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you." — Sri Chinmoy

I believe we hillbillies are the toughest goddamned people on this earth. We take an electric saw to the hide of those who insult our mother. We — J.D. Vance

The Earth is your Mother and Grandmother. When you walk on the Earth, you are making a prayer to her. — Burleigh Muten

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos

But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty. — Margaret Fuller

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain. — Anasazi Foundation

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother. — Leopold Schefer