The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

—D. H. Lawrence

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About D. H. Lawrence

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David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons...

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Sometimes snakes can't slough. They can't burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don't care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

—D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future. But we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

—D. H. Lawrence

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I close your ear with kisses and seal your nostrils, and round your neck you'll wear — nay, let me work — a delicate chain of kisses. Like beads they go around and not one misses to touch its fellow on either side.

—D. H. Lawrence

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

—D. H. Lawrence

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

—D. H. Lawrence

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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

—Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

—Hannah Arendt

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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

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The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

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