Quotes About Planet

The planet is man's; he has bent it to his will and made it his to enjoy; his to develop, and his to destroy.

Do you know how many species will be made extinct by these games?' he demanded furiously. 'Good grief, what is it about you humans? You think you're the only thing on this planet that's worth anything, that you can ravage nature just to show your superiority. Can you even comprehend a fraction of what's being done here?' Then he calmed down just as quickly, became sorrowful instead of angry. 'No. you probably can't. And I expect you wouldn't care if you could.

In the process of creating what we want, in pursuit of our happiness, we are just destroying the very source of our life, this planet; we are making a bonfire out of it. But still we are not satisfied, nor are we any more joyful than what people were five hundred years ago.

We the people share Planet Earth together, as one people, one nation, and one destiny. So, why do we say we are so different from each other? When indeed, we are not. Yes, we have our own personal preferences, beliefs, and values. But we also have many similarities in common. And the biggest one is living on Planet Earth. And sharing the lands together, as one human race among many other humans."

Without the desire for God, our planet would be a sorry wasteland of ugliness.

Life keeps time, and it seems that the beat is an old one, determined mainly by the rotation of our own planet, which turns the sun on and off like some giant cosmic strobe light. Life

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6 000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.

We also know that evolution crafted all life on the planet with natural selection and that we can capture the way it works with mathematics, distilling its essence into the form of equations.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely solely on each other, the Force, and their awesome martial skills to prevail.

The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet. But because the fear of such a war turned out to be greater than all of the differences that separated the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies, there was now reason for hope that it would never take place.

what is the good of a nice house without a decent planet to put it on H.D.Thoreau

But I don't call it immigration, I call it migration. As a species it's very healthy for us to get up and move around the planet. Sometimes certain groups of people have to do that for economic reasons. Nobody's doing it just to be spiteful. Everybody loves the idea of a homeland. I used to, but I've kind of got the bigger picture now. It's a home planet to me.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.