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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
RVD is the most chilled man on planet Earth - if he was any more relaxed, he'd be asleep - and he is a really nice guy, too.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia.
- Armstrong
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for me, I want to have fun while I’m working. Now not everyone thinks physics is fun, but I do. I think experimental physics is especially fun, because not only do you get to solve puzzles about the universe or on Earth, there are really cool toys in the lab.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020