- Doorstep
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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
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.
- Nov 07, 2020
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We and our fellow men of all countries must realize that we share this wonderful, beautiful, salubrious earth as brothers and that there never will be anywhere else to go.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter. The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.
- Grasping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020