Planet Quotes
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We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.
Eban Goodstein
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The same biological clock ticks away in humans and fruit flies, which underscores the importance of circadian timing to life on this planet.
Michael Rosbash
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The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.
James Hansen
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There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.
Brian Swimme
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Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.
George Wald
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If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.
David Shore
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There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?
Arjuna Ardagh
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The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.
Haruki Murakami
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We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.
Tricia Helfer
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People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.
Nikki Reed
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We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.
Evanna Lynch
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If we do destroy most life on this planet, science says it won't be the first time.
Bryan Kest
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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
Eva Green
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If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.
Denis Boyles
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From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from warm hearths and good homes, promising to return; they fled from cold hearts and bad debts, never to return. They were farmers and merchants and sailors and slaves and abolitionists and soldiers of fortune and ladies of the night. They jumped bail to start their journey, and jumped ship at journey’s end. They were the pillars of their communities, and their communities’ dregs…
H. W. Brands
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Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across vast reaches of time and space. The particles that make us have traveled billions of years across the universe; long after we and our planet are gone, they will be a part of other worlds.
Neil Shubin
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Give up meat to save the planet.
Nicholas Herbert Stern
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So, when you train no-gi all the time, the no-gi style evolves quicker, twice as fast. Especially, the way we do it at 10th Planet, I am not just the one conveying the knowledge. All my students are involved.
Eddie Bravo
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No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.
Allen Evangelista
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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.
Benjamin Creme