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Quotes About Planet

I'm sorry we cannot help you get home to your dimension. We have a pressing mission to get cough-syrup to a dying planet.
~ Unknown
The fact is that we live on a rapidly aging planet, and we will soon have but two choices if our species is to survive: engineer on a planetary scale or get off.
~ Unknown
Our home planet, as Carl Sagan put it, is a "pale blue dot" . . . The "Pale Blue Dot" is a moving soliloquy by Carl Sagan in his 1980 television series Cosmos. The remake of this series, which aired in 2014 and was hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, replayed Sagan's soliloquy toward the end of the final episode (episode 13, "Unafraid of the Dark") with stunning graphics to illustrate that the Earth is a "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
~ Unknown
Stellar coordinates? she mused. But it was unlikely anyone on the planet would have had the first clue about such things.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Sequestration nanonics,' Colin mumbled as he sank back into his chair. 'Dear God, who are these invaders? Xenocs? Some exiled group from another planet?
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Who had actually been first would never now be known. Both governments had claimed them: the wealth contained in the lonely metal chunks would be a heady boost for the planet whose companies could mine and refine such plentiful ore.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.
~ Peter Heller
Context is funny. How things hit you. Like on one planet there is gravity and you are walking along, then there is no gravity and you are airborne, sort of flying in slow parabolic leaps
~ Peter Heller
We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?
~ Peter J. Carroll