Earth Quotes
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Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.
Charles Bowden
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This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.
Charles August Lindbergh
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I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didnt create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.
Stuart Chase
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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
James Anthony Froude
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The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
Walt Whitman
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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Our purpose is simple... to love; to love each other, to love all life, and to love our Earth.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.
George Jung
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The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.
Daniel O'Sullivan
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
W. S. Gilbert
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
Terence McKenna
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
Ernest Hemingway
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The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.
Steven Spielberg
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As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.
Evo Morales
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We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.
Evo Morales
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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.
Randy Alcorn
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Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Vandana Shiva
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Behold , I have graven you upon the palm of my hand, that is what Jesus came on earth to do: to proclaim, to give us the Good News that God loves us, that we are precious to Him.
Mother Teresa
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To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.
John Glenn
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The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.
Brian Swimme
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Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
Martin Rees