Pastoral Resources

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.