Best 4670 quotes in «earth quotes» category

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

We must make living in harmony with the Earth a priority. This is our home... the only one we have!

We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

We're here on Earth to fart around

We're in this world to bring heaven down to earth.

We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.

We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.

We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

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.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.