Earth Quotes
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!
Helen Keller
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We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.
Sufjan Stevens
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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
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Working with the earth is peaceful for me.
Stana Katic
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Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.
Carolyn Hax
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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
Richard Aldington
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If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention.
Paul Davies
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Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
Peter A. Levine
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When you think about climate change, that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
Carl Linnaeus
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Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.
Charles Alexander Eastman
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When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.
Ernest Rutherford
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Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments.
Katie Gill
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Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.
Augusta Jane Evans
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For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.
David Bowie
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We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth - stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us.
Bill Mollison
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There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.
William Graham Sumner
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Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
Harry S Truman
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
Anne Tyler
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
Albert Camus
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
Nic Pizzolatto
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Normal? What's that?" "How you really look." "Can you take off all your clothes?" Okay weirdest thing ever-I just asked myself to take off all my clothes. It doesn't get much creepier. "Why on earth would I do that?" "You asked me to be naked; I thought it was only fair.
Kiersten White