Quotes About Planet

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There are more people on this planet who will be nice to you than won't," I said, ignoring my aching face. "The only difference is the ones who are loud and obnoxious are the only ones we tend to see. The hatred and seething fury gets all the press, while the quiet acceptance seems to fade into the background

We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.

the planet has undergone change so wrenching that the diversity of life has plummeted. Five of these ancient events were catastrophic enough that they're put in their own category: the so-called Big Five. In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.

A few years ago, in an essay in Nature, the Nobel Prize–winning Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen coined a term. No longer, he wrote, should we think of ourselves as living in the Holocene. Instead, an epoch unlike any of those which preceded it had begun. This new age was defined by one creature—man—who had become so dominant that he was capable of altering the planet on a geological scale. Crutzen dubbed this age the "Anthropocene.

generating enough heat to, in effect, broil the surface of the planet.

It's just absolute hubris and so arrogant to think that we can survive without everything else. We come from this planet." --- Paul Hardisty, head of the Institute that runs SeaSim in Australia

No creature has ever altered life on the planet in this way before

One weedy species," the pair observed, "has unwittingly achieved the ability to directly affect its own fate and that of most of the other species on this planet.

I'm not turning my back on Norway. But I'm not a Northman, I'm an Earthman. I live on a planet. And the planet is sailing through space. What is Oslo? A speck. A moaning dust mote. And the forests here in the north are so cold, so cold.

We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

I always loved movies like 'King Kong' and 'Planet of the Apes,' monster movies, Ray Harryhausen films, all of that stuff. I always loved the music in them, too.

I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war.

I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.

The Internet requires evolved forms of governance that we haven't figured out as a planet. I'd love to help make that easier and make that possible.

Too many of my fellow Christians voted for selfishness and for degradation of the beautiful world God created. I guess they figured that by the time the planet was a smoky wasteland, they'd be nice and comfy in heaven, so wotthehell.

Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an' religion, the two worst things on the planet.

The situation was clear: They were two astronauts on a cold planet. He was, for his part, a gentle dissembler, a dodgy investment guru with his hands in too many pockets. She was a terrorist who drove tent stakes into the ground, who cradled mewing stray cats in her arms, not to mention the poor Tomas.

A person with a clear heart and open mind can experience the wilderness anywhere on earth. It is a quality of one's own consciousness. The planet is a wild place and will always be.

What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the planet.