- 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
- Fervently
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- Nov 07, 2020
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.
- East Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020