Quotes About Planet

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

I have descended from a planet, called grief.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

But I had made contact with a different planet from the one my parents or sister lived on. It was a planet where an act of violence changed your life.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.

I think humanity has forgotten – this planet is for joy.

For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back.

Of what was plastic made? What died? He knew it was a product of petroleum, of oil, and so he assumed plastic was made out of the very lifeblood of the planet. When all the oil was drained, he imagined the planet quaking and shrinking in on itself, like a squeezed orange that has been sucked to death. He

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

I called to the waiter, 'bring me one of those Antares things.' Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

There have been six extinction events in the life of this planet. I bet every one of them was the spore.

People are not motivated by the bottom line. It's about the human factor—and purpose is the driver. It's what stirs our souls and inspires us to do great things over a sustained period of time." Capitalism for these organizations capitalizes on human enterprise, not performance metrics. On people, not consumers. On relationships, not transactions. And on becoming the best company for the planet, not just on the planet.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

A job is a sacrifice. Following an interest - that's a contribution. And we're here on the planet, not to sacrifice ourselves, but to make a contribution.

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

It was Smith who claimed he had received revelations about this premortal state from god-men who allegedly put us here and live on a distant planet near a giant star called Kolob.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet