Quotes About Planet

The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Save the Earth" and beneath that, "There's Nowhere Else to Go.

So what are you saying? We shouldn't care about the environment?" "No, of course not." "Then what?" Malcolm coughed, and stared into the distance. "Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. To the earth... a million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Malcolm tosió y fijó la mirada en el infinito: —Seamos claros: el planeta no está en peligro. Nosotros estamos en peligro. No tenemos el poder de destruir el planeta... ni de salvarlo. Pero podríamos tener el poder de salvarnos a nosotros mismos.

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. To the earth...a million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us.

Myth and nature are the two great garments of the world, with nature being the living green garment that covers the planet and myth being the multidimensional, many-colored fabric that continually weaves human culture.

have taken place in my lifetime on this planet of ours, then you will see things quite as clearly in black and white as I do. You can only judge people by their actions, not by their protestations. People act for good or they act for ill and those who do great ill are bad and those who do great good—they are good.

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

When we love the planet, we love ourselves, and when we love ourselves, we love the planet.

I love you. Really, I do. Now love yourself more and each other a lot more. And please take care of this precious planet.

Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system.

When we radiate the warmth of our love-energy, our compassion-energy on the planet, we shine the qualities of our Source!

Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

Make no mistake. This is a planet of microbes. We are here at their pleasure. They don't need us at all. We'd be dead in a day without them.

I suppose—I was on a long flight across the Pacific, staring idly out the window at moonlit ocean, when it occurred to me with a certain uncomfortable forcefulness that I didn't know the first thing about the only planet I was ever going to live on.