- Future
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.
- Great Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
- Gas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the invasion of Afghanistan, when the focus suddenly turned toward Iraq, I suddenly thought, ‘What on earth had Iraq got to do with the war on terror?'
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
- Detect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020