Quotes About Earth

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

Marriages maybe made in heaven, but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on earth.

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

El cetro y la corona acaban derrumbándose Y todo se hace igual en la tierra Sólo la memoria de los justos Deja una dulce fragancia en el mundo y florece en el polvo.

I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not going anywhere- just like the spider up in the corner, the dust on the sill, and the cat I buried in the backyard. -Jamaica Ritcher.

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

These spires above my house are doves, lifted by grace above the earth's eruption.

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.

That turtle is fearless. She has to be. She carries the Earth on her back.

I don't know why, but this seemed like one of the nicest things I had learned in the woods--that earthworms, lowly, confined to the darkness of the earth, could make just a little stir in the world.

Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.

She denied herself the luxury and beauty that kill reverie. Love too. Once upon a time love had placed her on earth and kept her there with the grip of a wrestler who is used to pinning huskies to the mat.

Ça, c'était une musique de vent, ah, mais une musique toute bien savante dans les belles choses de la terre et des arbres.

Les choses de la terre, mon vieux, j'ai tant vécu avec elles, j'ai tant fait ma vie dans l'espace qu'elles laissaient, j'ai tant eu d'amis arbres, le vent s'est tant frotté contre moi que, quand j'ai de la peine, c'est à elles que je pense pour la consolation.

Thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth So

The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived.

The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do?