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Quotes About Earth

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
~ Nick Hornby
For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature
~ David Suzuki
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
~ Elizabeth Smart
I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
~ Emily St. John Mandel
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
~ Frans Lanting
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
~ Alice Walker
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
~ Michael Shermer
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
~ Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
~ William Jennings Bryan
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
~ Harriet Martineau
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.
~ Isaac Watts
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
~ Jack Kornfield
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
~ James Lovelock
We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.
~ Jeff Corwin
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!
~ Casper Van Dien
Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
~ Emily Dickinson
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
~ Fanny Kemble
The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.
~ Anatoly Chubais
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
~ Aristophanes
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
~ Barbara Walters
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
~ Katherine Mansfield
There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.
~ Lawrence Anthony