Earth Quotes
-
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.
Edgar Allan Poe
-
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
William Howard Taft
-
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
Butch Hancock
-
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Catherine Booth
-
Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.
Chet Raymo
-
In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.
Paul Davies
-
This is taking photos from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
-
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
Homer
-
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.
Vandana Shiva
-
We are going home (we are Home, already and always). Home on this earth is being all levels of our awareness or consciousness in our own unique fashion.
Charles L. Whitfield
-
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
I will defend the NASA Earth Science Division with everything I've got.
David Grinspoon
-
By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
Paul R. Ehrlich
-
The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
-
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
Tony Blair
-
In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.
Christopher West
-
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
Jill Lepore
-
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
Peter Diamandis
-
Then a Voice said: 'Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see, for there they are taking you.'
Black Elk
-
I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
-
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.
Sandra Tsing Loh
-
We are no longer anchored here through the illusions. The Earth itself is transforming to allow us to be unearthed and to make our way differently within the universal community.
Christine McCormick Day
-
People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other.
Allegra Goodman