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Quotes About Earth

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth
~ Gerald Massey
That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity
~ Brian Swimme
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
~ James Lovelock
The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.
~ Adolf Hitler
The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?
~ Kanye West
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
~ Democritus
Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
~ Dean Koontz
Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.
~ William R. Catton Jr
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
~ Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.
~ Mitch Hedberg
...heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo.
~ Joe LaFlam, My Fear Lady
Wisdom of the Ages: Do the aliens on the moon pull down their pants and 'earth' their friends for fun?
~ Matthew D. Heines
Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL!
~ Tanya Masse
If everyone was cognisant of their purpose on earth, we would only need weapons for hunting and nothing else.
~ Gugu Mona
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
~ Terry Eagleton
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
~ Vandana Shiva
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
~ W. H. Auden
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
~ Ronald Reagan
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
~ Wayne Dyer