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Quotes About Earth

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.
~ Steven Colbert
Jupiter's moons are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist. -contemporaries of Galileo Galilei, circa 1610
~ Steven D. Price
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~ Steven D. Price
MERCATOR MAP PROJECTION (1569)
~ Steven Johnson
PLANETARY MAGNETISM (1600)
~ Steven Johnson
Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth.
~ Steven Pinker
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence. Death becomes a mere rite of passage, like puberty or a midlife crisis.
~ Steven Pinker
The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.
~ Steven Pinker
OLD ENGLISH (c. 1000): Faeder ure thu the eart on heofonum, si thin nama gehalgod. Tobecume thin rice. Gewurthe in willa on eorthan swa swa on heofonum.
~ Steven Pinker
As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billions of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents.
~ Steven Pinker
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.
~ Plato
I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.
~ Osip Mandelstam
There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.
~ John C. Reilly
Little deeds of kindness Little words of love; Help to make earth an Eden Like the heaven above.
~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.
~ Matt Haig, The Humans
I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.
~ Pete Doherty
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!
~ Stewart Udall
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.
~ Langston Hughes
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
~ Alan Paton
I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.
~ e. e. cummings
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
~ Marianne Williamson
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
~ Pablo Neruda
Planet Earth, gentle and blue With all my heart, I love you. Dancing the Dream by Michael Jackson
~ Michael Jackson
On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.
~ Pearl S. Buck