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Quotes About Earth

Lie heavy on him earth, hor he laid many a heavy load on thee (suggested epitaph)
~ Abel Evans
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
~ Aberjhani
Greed, crowned emperor, rules the earth with cold disdain for harmony's path.
~ Aberjhani
What I'm praying is that you will choose those beautiful possibilities over any self-annihilating alternatives. My whole life on earth has been the weaving of a single powerful spell. The best part of all my magic was loving you." (as spoken by the character Valerie Hyerman)
~ Aberjhani
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,And drinks, and gapes for drink again.The plants suck in the earth, and areWith constant drinking fresh and fair.
~ Abraham Cowley
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Vernadsky proposed that the study of the Earth would not be complete without understanding the central role of life as a planetary force.
~ Adam Frank
For about the first two billion years of Earth's history, its atmosphere contained only minute traces of oxygen, even though it had long been a home to life. For
~ Adam Frank
Thus, the Earth was once a jungle world, a sweltering hothouse planet devoid of snow.
~ Adam Frank
The whole history of the debate about life beyond Earth is an argument between optimists and pessimists. It's a debate that began with the opposition between Aristotle and Epicurus, extended through the 1800s to Flammarion versus Whewell, and took its modern turn with the Drake equation, through which the battle between pessimism and optimism became quantitative.
~ Adam Frank
Ty mnie zabi?e?! - ty mnie nauczy?e? czyta?! W pi?knych ksi?gach i pi?knym przyrodzeniu czyta?! Ty dla mnie ziemi? piek?em zrobi?e? (z ?alem i u?miechem) i rajem! (mocniej i ze wzgard?) A to jest tylko ziemia!
~ Adam Mickiewicz
So listen to them, heed them. Who never touch the Earth, can never be in Heaven
~ Adam Mickiewicz
Kto nie dotkn?? ziemi ni razu, Ten nigdy nie mo?e by? w niebie.
~ Adam Mickiewicz
The mammals—hairy creatures that produce milk to nurture their young—are a small group of organisms on Earth, with only around 6,000 types known, one-fifth of which are different styles of bat.
~ Adam Rutherford
Iceland straddles a rip in the earth's mantle, and the two plates riven through the land are slowly pulling it apart, at the speed of fingernail growth. There
~ Adam Rutherford
life has existed on Earth for about 3.9 billion years. The species Homo sapiens, of which you are a member, emerged a mere 300,000 years ago as far as we know, in pockets in east and north Africa. Writing began about 6,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, somewhere in what we now call the Middle East.
~ Adam Rutherford
Earth as a building material began to be considered as inferior, and the product of poverty. It fell out of fashion due to social reorganisation – not because it was less durable than the new modern materials.
~ Adam Weismann
was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth—when the divine beings cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.
~ Adele Berlin
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.
~ Adolf Hitler
As opposed to this, we National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely, to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitled on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and our German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified.
~ Adolf Hitler
Staatsautorität als Selbstzweck kann es nicht geben, da in diesem Fall jede Tyrannei auf dieser Erde unangreifbar und geheiligt wäre.
~ Adolf Hitler