Our friend and fellow writer-cum-philosopher, Herman King, adds his favorite quotes here weekly.  

For the week beginning  24 February 2008—

This week our theme is the good Earth.  

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
W. H. Auden

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
Norman Ralph Augustine

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

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