The earth was created for rich and poor in common. Nature knows no rich. She creates us all alike and alike she encloses us in the sepulchre. What more resembles one dead man than another dead man?

—Saint Ambrose

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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

—Walt Whitman

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Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

—George Bernard Shaw

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

—Jewish Proverb

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

—Henry David Thoreau