Earth Quotes

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the ...

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turn...

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet...

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine,"...

Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that h...

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite...

The pure whiteness, dazzling in the sun, was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Who w...

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and...

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pres...

What have they done to the earth?What have they done to our fair sister?Ravaged and plundered and ri...

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means ...

We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which i...

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet ...

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can ...

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the ...

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand sce...

I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like ...

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tunin...

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like ...

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you...

It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His in...

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

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With ou...

Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, e...

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousa...

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being i...

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: ...

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the S...

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly ...

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be ...

He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a f...

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the qu...

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...

...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical con...

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before.""I know that. Where do you think I got my...

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or s...

Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the univers...

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this eart...

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I think my appeal is that I've always tried to stay very grounded to my fans and to be accessible - ...

There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its right...

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious ...

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that...

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronaut...

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilder...

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions....

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called ...

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that univers...

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim i...

The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bo...

The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to ...

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even fi...

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best...

It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro...

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger tha...

Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a go...

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we ha...

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than b...

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...

Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light...

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once wa...

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have ...

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained w...

On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were a...

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's n...

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life i...

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her...

I lack nothing, I tell you!”“Nothing?” I asked. “Not even heaven?”He lowered his head and was silent...

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of th...

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first re...

Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion an...

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemi...

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed wit...

It isn’t the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is conc...