Quotes About Earth

One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn't investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over.

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don't ever want you to forget that. You hear me?

Urban areas take up less than 3% of the earth's surface while housing a majority of its inhabitants.

The top 20 centimeters of soil is all that stands between us and extinction.

How arrogant you are To think your wretched Self so singular! The disappointments of this world will die In less time than the blinking of an eye, And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth; What empty foolishness it is to care For what must one day be dispersed to air!

that we now existed in an apathy which was almost peace, like that of the blind unsentient earth itself which dreams after no flower's stalk nor bud, envies not the airy musical solitude of the springing leaves it nourishes.

After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.

?mier? wed?ug mnie to zakr?t drogi. Umrze? - wymyka? si? spojrzeniu. S?ucham i s?ysz? jak odchodzisz, Trwaj?c jak ja przy swym istnieniu. Ziemia jest przecie? z nieba ca?a. K?amstwu wszak nikt nie uwi? gniazda. Ka?dy tu kiedy? si? odnalaz? ?wiadom, ?e droga w kr?g i prawda

Arroio, esse cantar, jovem e puro, Busca o oceano por achar; E a fala dos pinhais, marulho obscuro, É o som presente desse mar futuro, É a voz da terra ansiando pelo mar.

Pues bien, la Tierra no es un conjunto de parches ni de parcelas: mantenerla habitable y hermosa es una tarea que sólo puede ser asumida por los hombres en cuanto comunidad mundial, no desde el ventajismo miope de unos contra otros.

De Selby likens the position of a human on the earth to that of a man on a tight-wire who must continue walking along the wire or perish, being, however, free in all other respects. Movement in this restricted orbit results in the permanent hallucination known conventionally as 'life' with its innumerable concomitant limitations, afflictions and anomalies.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

Through our CO2 emissions, we are making the earth a more fertile world.

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.

I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.