- Believe
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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
- Exhausted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.
- Canberra
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: 'Why on earth would you live in Canberra?' Loudly, and in a way they would never use to discuss anywhere else. And they never listen to the answer.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020