- Nov 07, 2020
Earth Quotes
One planet, endless reasons to notice it.
A couple of these frame caring for the earth as an old, ongoing responsibility rather than a new idea. For a related environmental date, see our Earth Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Red
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reducing our personal impact on the Earth via our ecological footprint, stop driving cars, eat less meat, all these things matter.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at Earth Summit in Rio 20 years ago... I was only 12 years old. And when I was speaking to the U.N. I was fighting for my future.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Earth will be around for a long time before you have a funnier president than Obama. He has a stand-up's cadence and the awareness and ability to make jokes about himself before comedians can. That's a page almost every politician should try to take from his book.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, it's going to be a while before that can happen. But we can immunise every kid on earth, and we can prevent these diseases. It's only a matter of political will, a little bit of money and some systems to do it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you look at the... atmosphere on the limb of the Earth, I wouldn't say it looks unhealthy, but it definitely looks very, very fragile and just kind of like this thin film, so it looks like something that we definitely need to take care of.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, sometimes causing vegetation above and next to the wall to grow faster or slower. Satellite imagery helps archaeologists to pick up these subtle changes.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020