Quotes About Earth

I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.