Best 4670 quotes in «earth quotes» category

[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.

The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.

The charming shall inherit the Earth.

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has changed greatly since fossilized life began on Earth nearly 600 million years ago. In fact, there is only 1/19 as much CO2 in the air today as there was 520 million years ago. That high CO2 was hardly the recipe for disaster.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by servitude and yet always willing to accept the slipping on of the harness. There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and her empire is an intangible one, for her domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

The course is so long, I had to take the curvature of the Earth into consideration.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant.

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth.

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.