Earth Quotes

• The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.

  

  Wayne Teasdale
  • Church
  • Sky
  • Ceiling

• The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Space
  • Understanding
  • Humanity

• Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

  

  Paul Dirac
  • Earth
  • Star
  • Flower

• A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth.

  

  Gerald Massey
  • Humanity
  • Flower
  • Blossom

• It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.

  

  Albert A. Michelson
  • Earth
  • Motion
  • Luminiferous

• If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Home
  • Single
  • Perspective

• With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Time
  • Help
  • Explore

• THE present! it is but a drop from the seaIn the mighty depths of eternity.I love it not-it taketh its birthToo near to the dull and the common earth.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Earth
  • Present

• Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Space

• The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Earth
  • Dying

• Any heart turned God ward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Prayer

• Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Hope
  • Growing
  • Humanity

• O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Years
  • Tears
  • Blood

• Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Authority

• Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Earth
  • Poverty

• And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Calling

• It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Funny
  • Worry
  • Married

• It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

  

  C. E. M. Joad
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• The Internet is the last place where there is actually a free market on Earth.

  

  Jeff Berwick
  • Free
  • Earth

• All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Word

• Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Opportunity
  • Fear
  • Problem

• I've always been an environmentalist, but my life changed the day I had children. I realized that I wasn't doing enough to protect the planet. People need nature, and of course I want my children to have the best possible opportunity in life. I also realized how important it was for me to raise them to be conscientious people that are aware of their impact on the earth.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Earth
  • Sometimes
  • Knows

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