Quotes About Earth

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

The earth is one tiny part of a vast energy net work.

We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who work to save the earth are its antibodies.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind's purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.