Earth Quotes And Sayings

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Earth Quotes And Sayings


“The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”
Pope John Paul II

“The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.”
– Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud

“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”
– Edward Abbey

“The mother-earth may not like the way we preserve her…if any.”
– Toba Beta

“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.”
– Jack Horner

“There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.”
– Carl Sagan

“These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.”
– Carl Sagan

“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.”
– Bridget Asher

“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, “people make the world go-round”.”
– T.F. Hodge

“Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.”
– Eric Chaisson

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity…”
– John Muir

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
– Kahlil Gibran

War in heaven makes no peace on earth.”
– Toba Beta

“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.”
– Vandana Shiva

“We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.”
– George Macaulay Trevelyan

“We do not inherit the planet from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
– Native American Saying

“We’re reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we’ve placed on her, if we don’t lift the burden ourselves.”
– Steven M. Greer

“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“What you take from the earth, you must give back. That’s nature‘s way.”
– Chris d’Lacey

“When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there’s only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.”
– Carl Sagan

“While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.”
– Toba Beta

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don’t want to understand you.”
– Anton Chekhov

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