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- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to be the next king of the Earth.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just want all people to be treated equally, all creeds. It would just make everybody's time on earth easier.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.
- Brotherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
- Fearing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
- Detach
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
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- Nov 07, 2020