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is a magnificently equipped spaceship traveling at a colossal speed, equipped with oxygen, food, and leisure activities, with a source of temperature and energy at just the right distance from it.

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey. . . . and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed. . . and it's called the planet Earth. Alan Watts

is a paradise, the only one we'll ever know, we have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it.

The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it. Henry Miller

is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky. Anaximander

is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body.

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic. Alan Watts

is not inherited from our ancestors. It is borrowed from our children.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors... we borrow it from our children. (David Brower)

is that within which the emerging of everything that emerges returns for shelter and, indeed, returns for shelter as one such emerging thing.

that within which the emerging of everything that emerges returns for shelter [zurückbirgt] and, indeed, returns for shelter as one such emerging thing. The Earth essences in that which emerges as that which shelters [Bergende]' (31/21).

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe. (Albert Einstein)

is the six-inch layer of top soil and the rain to which humanity owes its existence.

Humankind, despite its artistic pretensions, its sophistication, and its many accomplishments, owes its existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. (Anonymous)

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