First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

The world is a living image of God.

You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!

The world is in your hands, now use it.

And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

The world remains ever the same.

God had created the world in play.

Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Spring will still come, without you. Fruit will still be on the trees, without you. The tide will still come in, without you. If they can do without you so can I. So go back in your shell -- I'll do bloody well without you.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

We can only change the world by changing men.