Quotes About Earth

But out here, adrift, you realize how often we take our placement on this Earth for granted.

You've been waiting here all this time? Eddie whispered. Time, the Captain said, is not what you think. He sat down next to Eddie. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

At certain moments, when death is close, the veils pull back between this world and the next. Heaven and earth overlay. When they do, it is possible to glimpse certain souls already departed. You can see them awaiting your arrival. And they can see you coming.

hovering Heaven is always waiting for us, visible from beneath the Earth's blue waters. Such a wondrous world.

The Christian Church,' he went on, 'tries to pretend it doesn't exist. But other religions aren't so coy – the ancient religions, I mean, the ones born out of passion and intelligence, an understanding of the earth and the way the seasons move, not the ones spread and imposed through politics and imperialism.

And the city itself was just a glow on the dark earth...

How do you strike fire without flint?" Connla wanted to know.  "The sun has no flints," Blathine replied. "Yet each day it brings fire to warm the earth."  Shaking his head ruefully, Connla said, "I see I will get no simple answers from you."  "There are no simple answers!" she chortled. "How quickly you are learning!

You see, I am alive, I am alive I stand in good relation to the earth I stand in good relation to the gods I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful I stand in good relation to the daughter of Tsen-tainte You see, I am alive, I am alive

They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.

Put differently, the liberation of world markets, a process powered by the liberation of unprecedented amounts of fossil fuels from the earth, has dramatically sped up the same process that is liberating Arctic ice from existence.

If we are to curb emissions in the next decade, we need a massive mobilization larger than any in history. We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth. This plan must mobilize financing and technology transfer on scales never seen before. It must get technology onto the ground in every country to ensure we reduce

In other words, changing the earth's climate in ways that will be chaotic and disastrous is easier to accept than the prospect of changing the fundamental, growth-based, profit-seeking logic of capitalism.

our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life.

global capitalism has made the depletion of resources so rapid, convenient, and barrier-free that "earth-human systems" are becoming dangerously unstable in response.

As the Guardian's George Monbiot puts it, our planet's resources can provide us with private sufficiency and public luxury, in the forms of wonderful parks and playgrounds, public sports centres and swimming pools, galleries, allotments and public transport networks. The earth cannot, however, sustain the impossible dream of private luxury for all.

changing the earth's climate in ways that will be chaotic and disastrous is easier to accept than the prospect of changing the fundamental, growth-based, profit-seeking logic of capitalism.

The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas comes out." —Republican U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, 20131

We have the best brand on earth: the Obama brand," she said. "Our possibilities are endless.

The earth is not our prisoner, our patient, our machine, or, indeed, our monster. It is our entire world. And the solution to global warming is not to fix the world, it is to fix ourselves.

The kind of transformation that is now required [to address the climate crisis] will happen only if it is treated as a civilizational mission, in our country and in every major economy on earth.

are symptoms of the same underlying sickness: a dominance-based logic that treats so many people, and the earth itself, as disposable.

I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble.

You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I

Whatever was carrying me dropped me again with an ungraceful thump, and I lay gasping and throat-sore on the earth—the warm earth, lush with soft green grass, though it silvered with frost in a circle around where the Staryk knelt.