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Quotes About Earth

You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.
~ Frederick Lenz
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
~ Victor Francis Hess
It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
~ L. Neil Smith
Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.
~ Rusty Schweickart
It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.
~ Oren Etzioni
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.
~ Rusty Schweickart
Music has always enhanced our experience of life on earth by seeming to give us access to something larger than ourselves - the strings of the universe.
~ Tom Junod
The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
~ David Shields
I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.
~ Robert T. Bakker
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans for hundreds of years, every 27 years. So you can imagine the amount of material.
~ Andy Muschietti
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
~ Robert Crippen
We're going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don't like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads us to? That's nonsense.
~ David Grinspoon
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
~ Robert Ballard
Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.
~ John Grogan
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.
~ Rusty Schweickart
I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
~ Don Lemon
The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.
~ Eric Roberts
Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.
~ Tom Ford
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
~ Duke of Wellington
What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
~ Roy Harper
We take immense care of our homes, maintain them, and try to make them more beautiful and comfortable for ourselves. Do we not consider our planet to be our home?
~ Asin