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Quotes About Earth

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.
~ Marco Rubio
Our saints had said that Earth existed 1.96 million years ago. Earlier, science did not accept this, but later, it had to.
~ Rajnath Singh
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
~ J. Paul Getty
Like every species on Earth, we are always seeking the ideal conditions that will allow us to live to our fullest potential
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Hãy Ä'i nh?ng bước chân như hôn vào m?t ??t Hãy Ä'i nh?ng bước chân như vá»— v? trái ??t
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We can't allow ourselves to get lost in the past or the future. We are there for the food and our food is there for us; it is only fair. Eat in mindfulness and you will be worthy of the Earth and the sky.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
the miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on Earth.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We are literally releasing the carbon dioxide that nature had locked up over a hundred million [years] down below the Earth. And we're releasing all that carbon dioxide now at a rate a million times faster [than it accumulated].
~ Thom Hartmann
The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.
~ Thomas Berry
O]ur human economy is derivative from the Earth economy. To glory in a rising Gross Domestic Product with an irreversibly declining Earth Product is an economic absurdity.
~ Thomas Berry
Until technologists learn reverence for the earth, there will be no possibility of bringing a healing or a new creative age to the earth.
~ Thomas Berry
Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
~ Thomas Hardy
The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him.
~ Thomas Hardy
Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, had she handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change in government. . . .
~ Thomas Hardy
Distance belongs to it, slyness belongs to it, quarest things on earth belongs to it. There, 'tmay as well come early as late s'far as I know. The sooner begun, the sooner over; for come it will.
~ Thomas Hardy
It's hard to have anything, isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
~ Thomas Harris
When we consider these simple facts, we see how absolutely futile are the attempts that have been made to draw a parallel between the story told by so much of the crust of the earth as is known to us and the story which Milton tells.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live " He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life." But he continued "which would be your second choice " His answer "France.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living.
~ Thomas Jefferson
On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The moral universe had not so much decayed here. It had been inverted, like some black hole, under the pressure of all the Earth's malice - a place where tribes and histories were sucked in and vaporized, and language flew inside out.
~ Thomas Keneally
I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected
~ Thomas Merton
Heaven and earth come together in the Unbegun, And all is foolishness, all is unknown, all is like The lights of an idiot, all is without mind! To obey is to close the beak and fall into Unbeginning.
~ Thomas Merton