Quotes About Earth

I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. —ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON

But if he's right, then… Harvey glanced at the globe he had brought from his office. He had outlined circles in Magic Marker: the Sea of Japan, the Bay of Bengal, the arc of islands that mark the Indies Sea, a double circle within the Gulf of Mexico. If an asteroid strike had made any one of those, the oceans would have boiled, all life would have been cremated. How often had life begun on Earth, and been scalded from its face, and formed again?

It's plate tectonics, Mark said. You know, the continents float around on top of the melted rock inside the Earth. Frank listened absently. No point in correcting Mark. But the Mojave was certainly a better place.

Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the human secrets she needs to know are to be found in the stars but rather closer to the earth her boots stand upon.

Now no sign, no scorch or char, marks the place where George built the fire. Remarkable, earth's strength to restore itself and erase human effort. But memory, stronger still, can send flames as high as the roof, and shift the wind and choke George and sting his eyes with smoke...

You can feel the North. It takes hold of you, marks you. No matter how far you move from its center of gravity, you are invariably drawn to it by an invisible current, like water droplets to the earth, like a needle to a magnet, like blood to blood, desire to desire.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

But I don't arrange a very good abduction, I'm afraid. In my haste to seize you and carry you off to the ends of the earth, I seem to have forgotten a few of the important articles. Such as baggage." "It was a perfect abduction," she declared. "Pray do not carp about the details.

Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Our planet has been misnamed; it is the ocean planet.

I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

Out there on the edge, the spinning of the Earth had slowed to give us the time we need to start finding each other again.

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.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.