Quotes About Earth

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansaw where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the earth.

A leafdi wes mid hire fan biset al abuten, hire lond al destruet, & heo al poure, inwið an eorðene castel.

It is a classic example of the deceptiveness of the senses: the Earth looks and feels as though it is at rest beneath our feet, even though it is really rotating. As for the celestial sphere, despite being visible in broad daylight (as the sky), it does not exist at all.

People are significant in the cosmic scheme of things; and The Earth's biosphere is incapable of supporting human life.

Belgarath turned back to Senji. "All right," he said. "The Sardion came to Zamad. How?" "It's said to have fallen out of the sky." "They always do," Beldin said. "Someday I'd like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

This is my manifesto. My attempt to nudge people toward something, or back toward something. Toward what? An understanding that most of us already have on a deeper level. That a world exists outside of us. A world that reminds us that we are animals, too, animals who have evolved along with other animals on this earth. Thinking, planning, scheming, talking, writing animals, but animals nonetheless.

God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don't you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale

Earth is a biologically modulated planet through and through. In a nontrivial way, it is a living planet. Gaiasignatures

society. The orbital technology enabling this observation is itself one of the strange and striking aspects of the transition now gripping Earth. If up to now the defining characteristic of Earth has been planetary-scale life, then what about these planetary-scale lights? Might this spreading, luminous net be part of a new defining characteristic? Even

This orbit defines another timescale that was hidden to us before the twentieth century: we complete one lap around our galaxy about every 225 million years.5 We can assemble a scrapbook of our cosmic history measured out in these galactic, or "cosmic," years. Our universe seems to have been around for about sixty-one of them,* and Earth has almost reached the galactic age of twenty-one. As a biosphere, we're still a teenager of sixteen or seventeen galactic years. We

Earth would stand out as strange and perturbed, with something in the air that geology and chemistry alone could not explain, with some huge ongoing, active chemical disturbance.

Now, when you hear some people advocating or warning against "geoengineering" Earth by spraying sun-blocking aerosols into the upper atmosphere, they are proposing to induce a process that is constantly at work on Titan. I'll return to the physics, and the wisdom, of such an anti-greenhouse project in chapter 4. Climate

They sit for a long time, hidden away in the small crater. Holding each other like refugees from a storm… Beneath Ora's body are the cool stone and the whole mountain, enormous and solid and infinite. She thinks: How thin is the crust of the earth

The sexuality of a man is more of the earth, the sexuality of a woman is more of the spirit. The spirituality of man is more heaven, it goeth to the greater. The spirituality of a woman is more of the earth, it goeth to the smaller.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

There is no one on earth more passionate about the winning of the lost than the Holy Spirit. He desires to break the chains of sin from every soul. He is the Spirit of evangelism.

The winds of earth are old and sane But tell me, tell me when you know — What happens to a hurricane That hasn't any place to go?

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

Nor are the earth, water, and other elements, examined by ARISTOTLE, and HIPPOCRATES, more like to those, which at present lie under our observation, than the men, described by POLYBIUS and TACITUS, are to those, who now govern the world.

The face of the earth is continually changing, by the encrease of small kingdoms into great empires, by the dissolution of great empires into smaller kingdoms, by the planting of colonies, by the migration of tribes. Is there any thing discoverable in all these events, but force and violence? Where is the mutual agreement or voluntary association so much talked of?

God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God's deputies, doing His work on earth.

But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.