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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
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Reagan, expanding on President Lincoln's phrase, referred to America as 'the last, best hope of man on Earth.' But this last, best hope is beginning to fade.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look at it with absolute freshness and go, 'Oh, so that's what you've been up to.'
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020