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"How beautiful you are, Earth, and how sublime! How perfect is your obedience to the light, and how noble is your submission to the sun!"

"How generous you are, Earth, and how strong is your yearning for your children lost between that which they have attained and that which they could not obtain. We clamor and you smile, we flit but you stay!"

"Are you a seed dropped in the field of the firmament to become God's tree reaching above the heavens with its celestial branches?

Or are you a drop of blood in the veins of the giants of giants, or a bead of sweat upon his brow?"

Are you a fruit ripened by the sun? Do you grow from the tree of Absolute Knowledge, whose roots extend through Eternity, and whose branches soar through the Infinite?"

taken from Earth by Kahlil Gibran