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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
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- Nov 07, 2020