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Quotes About Earth

The boulder shook, vibrated, and with it the entire hill vibrated and shook.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Your choices, your words, and every move you make are permanent. Life is lived in indelible ink, boy. Wake up. You're making little bitty brushstrokes every minute you walk around on this earth. And with those tiny brushstrokes, you are creating the painting that your life will ultimately become—a masterpiece or a disaster.
~ Andy Andrews
Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.
~ Andy Couturier
They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.
~ Andy Couturier
People keep finding themselves in an unforgiving matrix of overwork, stress, and unwilling complicity in the destruction of the earth.
~ Andy Couturier
The earth turned on the pivot of her mouth.
~ Angela Carter
Adonai, for looking on me with such mercy. May the earth and everyone on it praise your name for your goodness and love.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
will lift up my eyes to the mountains," I began, "from where does my help come? My help comes from Adonai, Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip. Your Keeper will not slumber.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
long before medical science came along to offer any compensation for the entrapments of the modern social design. When a woman chooses whether or not to reproduce, the earth itself is choosing. With or without confirmation from man, this is the reality that the earth lives every day.
~ Ani DiFranco
I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.
~ Anita Amirrezvani
We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.
~ Ann Druyan
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future.
~ Buzz Aldrin
There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy.
~ David Grinspoon
Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.
~ Timothy Noah
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
I'm not that much of a celebrity really so I don't know if it makes any difference whatsoever. But if any publicity can be gained at all for a brilliant charity like Friends Of The Earth, that's great.
~ Helen Baxendale
Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Whenever I see a nighttime picture of Earth from space, with its glowing lights, I am stirred by its beauty.
~ David Grinspoon
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
~ Sylvia Earle
Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
~ Craig Venter
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.
~ Henri Poincare