Quotes About Earth

The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.

what is the good of a nice house without a decent planet to put it on H.D.Thoreau

Certain English geologists produced confusion by embracing continental drift and then drawing up narratives and maps that showed continents moving all over the earth with respect to a fixed and undriftable England.

The sea is not all that responds to the moon. Twice a day the solid earth bobs up and down, as much as a foot.

lithosphere

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

Be gentle with the earth.

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.