- Landscape
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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
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will venture to say that sending a probe to the center of the earth will be more difficult than putting a man on the moon or sending a spaceship to Mars.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why on earth is the 'New Yorker' publishing puff pieces about pretty girls who go to parties? Does the 'New Yorker' ever run photos of cute boys just because they're cute and they come from money and they go to lots of parties?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth?
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
- Furniture
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- Nov 07, 2020