Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.
We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.
We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
God hides the fires of hell within paradise.