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Quotes About Planet

Asteroid detection, tracking, and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously.
~ John M. Grunsfeld
Time moves along at its own pace for as long as we are on this planet, and then some. So why try to beat it anymore? Maybe it's better to meet time head on and chill ourselves out so we can exist in harmony with the passing days.
~ Tara Stiles
It can be argued that the current rise of serial killers can be perhaps attributed to a new evolutionary prerogative for the demise of our species; Mother Nature's little way of saying, in among several other ways, that there might be too many humans on the planet.)
~ Peter Vronsky
The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.
~ Peter Watts
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
~ Phillip Yancey
I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
~ Edgar Mitchell
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
~ Nathan Wolfe
I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.
~ Gordon Cooper
I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.
~ John Shelby Spong
The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
~ Rick Smolan
International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.
~ Angus Deaton
I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.
~ Trudie Styler
It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.
~ Lily Cole
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
~ Mary McDonnell
I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.
~ Douglas Alexander
A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it's an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog. 'What does electricity taste like?' I ask. 'Like a planet around a star,' Bina48 replies. Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I'm not sure which
~ Jon Ronson
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.
~ Jon Ronson
She saw a planet on which there were still seventeen thousand nukes, probably enough to wipe vertebrate life off the face of it, and thought This can't be good.
~ Jonathan Franzen
A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Changing how we eat will not be enough, on its own, to save the planet, but we cannot save the planet without changing how we eat.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
This sin-stained planet would have ripped apart at the seams long ago were it not for the restraining hand of God.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
The community of today is the planet, not the bounded nation…patterns of coordinated agression can only break it into factions". We are in a time of "rationalized avarice and sanctified misunderstanding." Joseph Campbell, 1949
~ Joseph Campbell
Now you can see today why the world is in trouble. What is the social field today? The social field is the planet, and there isn't a single system of action that has to do with the planet. They all have to do with one interest group or another.
~ Joseph Campbell
the Gaia principle. CAMPBELL: There you are, the whole planet as an organism.
~ Joseph Campbell