Quotes about Earth Renewal

Wendell Berry

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Jaggi Vasudev

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

Edith Stein

This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.

William Cullen Bryant

Showers and sunshine bring,
Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
And one by one the singing-birds come back.

Kurt Vonnegut

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.

Alice Walker

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

Lewis Grizzard

Spring time is the land awakening.

e. e. cummings

Spring slattern of seasons
you have soggy legs
and a muddy petticoat
drowsy

is your hair your
eyes are sticky with
dream and you have a sloppy body from

being brought to bed of crocuses
when you sing in your whisky voice
the grass rises on the head of the earth
and all the trees are put on edge

spring
of the excellent jostle of
thy hips
and the superior

Emily Carr

Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.

Earth Renewal Quotes