Earth Quotes · Page 129

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

— Rumi

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

— Harriet Martineau

“I have a dream, humans were part of aliens on earth. I also dream, that some humans are really indigenous.”

— Toba Beta

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

— E. O. Wilson

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

— Johannes Kepler

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and…

— H. G. Wells

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to…

— James Sheridan Knowles

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space,…

— Naz?m Hikmet

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into…

— Helen Hayes

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and…

— Jacob Bronowski

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides…

— Basil Bunting

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows…

— Paracelsus

Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities…

— Bryan Kest

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I…

— Donny Osmond

She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection…

— Carl Sagan

The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are…

— Christine Jennings

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. .…

— Calvin Coolidge

Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of…

— Sam Keen

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

— Pablo Neruda

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

— Soren Kierkegaard

If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.

— Yuichiro Miura

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

— Sydney Smith

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

— George Wald

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

— Anonymous

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

— Sean Kingston

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

— Saint John Chrysostom

The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.

— James Hutton

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth…

— Frank Borman

We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.

— Sri Chinmoy

The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just…

— Dada Vaswani

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

— Sara Bareilles

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

— Van Jones

Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.

— Jack Handey