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title: "162 Life Earth Quotes by 132 authors"
description: "Browse 162 Life Earth quotes by 132 authors. Discover the best Life Earth sayings and thoughts."
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> [“The life on earth is temporary.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-giftyakita/the-life-on-earth-is-temporary/)

[Lailah GiftyAkita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-giftyakita/)

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> [All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-kordich/all-life-on-earth-emanates-from-the-green-of-the-plant/)

[Jay Kordich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-kordich/)

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> [Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikos-kazantzakis/life-on-earth-means-the-sprouting-of-wings/)

[Nikos Kazantzakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikos-kazantzakis/)

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> [Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/life-on-earth-is-inconceivable-without-trees/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

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> [“life on Earth is a miracle”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-parazynski/life-on-earth-is-a-miracle/)

[Scott Parazynski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-parazynski/)

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> [The majority of life on Earth is microbial](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caleb-scharf/the-majority-of-life-on-earth-is-microbial/)

[Caleb Scharf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caleb-scharf/)

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> [What is the key to life on Earth?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aidan-gillen/what-is-the-key-to-life-on-earth/)

[Aidan Gillen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aidan-gillen/)

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> [Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/science-reveals-that-all-life-on-earth-is-one/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [-and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/and-that-is-what-heaven-is-for-for-understanding-your-life-on-earth/)

[Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/)

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> [We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-corwin/we-live-in-uncertain-times-when-it-comes-to-the-future-of-life-on/)

[Jeff Corwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-corwin/)

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> [Silicon-based life on Earth doesn't make sense, but perhaps it would in some totally different environment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-arnold/silicon-based-life-on-earth-doesn-t-make-sense-but-perhaps-it-would/)

[Frances Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-arnold/)

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> [The big goal - and it sounds crazy - is to save as much life on Earth as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-bradbrook/the-big-goal-and-it-sounds-crazy-is-to-save-as-much-life-on-earth-as/)

[Gail Bradbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-bradbrook/)

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> [Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/every-moment-and-every-event-of-every-man-s-life-on-earth-plants/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/mrs-schneiderman-s-theory-of-life-was-that-earth-held-no-sorrow-that/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

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> [The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-goldman/the-easiest-thing-to-do-on-earth-is-not-write-but-this-is-life-on/)

[William Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-goldman/)

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> [“Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/your-life-on-earth-is-but-for-a-few-days-and-before-you-know-it-you/)

[Sunday Adelaja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunday-adelaja/)

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> [I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elon-musk/i-think-life-on-earth-must-be-about-more-than-just-solving-problems/)

[Elon Musk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elon-musk/)

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> [“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alicia-silverstone/nothing-will-benefit-human-health-and-increase-chances-for-survival/)

[Alicia Silverstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alicia-silverstone/)

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> [Scientists have a theory that life on earth came from a meteor that crashed long ago. I dont know about that. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/scientists-have-a-theory-that-life-on-earth-came-from-a-meteor-that-2/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/faith-evans/big-will-always-be-a-part-of-my-life-but-i-m-still-on-this-earth-so-i/)

[Faith Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/faith-evans/)

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> [“We are in the age of enlightenment of what environmental radiation is and what it is doing to all life on Earth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-magee/we-are-in-the-age-of-enlightenment-of-what-environmental-radiation-is/)

[Steven Magee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-magee/)

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> [“Life on earth is far too short, and we were each created with such notable talents that it’d be a travesty to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tsh-oxenreider/life-on-earth-is-far-too-short-and-we-were-each-created-with-such/)

[Tsh Oxenreider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tsh-oxenreider/)

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> [The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-geisler/the-universe-is-specifically-tweaked-to-enable-life-on-earth-a-planet/)

[Norman Geisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-geisler/)

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> [When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifford-d-simak/when-i-talk-of-the-purpose-of-life-i-am-thinking-not-only-of-human/)

[Clifford D. Simak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifford-d-simak/)

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> [For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-r-miller/for-much-of-history-it-was-possible-to-believe-that-the-great/)

[Kenneth R. Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-r-miller/)

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> [From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-rees/from-a-personal-perspective-i-am-disappointed-that-we-have-yet-to/)

[Martin Rees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-rees/)

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> [I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antony-gormley/i-think-that-the-equator-could-act-as-a-great-equalizer-for-all-life/)

[Antony Gormley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antony-gormley/)

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> [It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elon-musk/it-s-important-that-we-attempt-to-extend-life-beyond-earth-now-it-is/)

[Elon Musk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elon-musk/)

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> [“Once one understands that the evolving community of life on Earth is God’s beloved creation and its ruination an unspeakable sin, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-a-johnson/once-one-understands-that-the-evolving-community-of-life-on-earth-is/)

[Elizabeth A. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-a-johnson/)

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> [Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/only-when-science-and-technology-are-used-with-human-concern-in-a/)

[Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/)

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> [All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kirby/all-life-on-earth-is-subject-to-the-rumbles-and-rockings-of-the/)

[Jack Kirby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kirby/)

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> [“If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the nobility of our memory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/if-there-were-no-life-beyond-this-earth-life-some-people-i-have-known/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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> [Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/unfortunately-all-life-on-earth-the-only-life-we-know-represents-for/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [“No, my point is that life on earth can take of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/no-my-point-is-that-life-on-earth-can-take-of-itself-in-the-thinking/)

[Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/)

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> [“I'm burning a way of life, just like that way of life is being burned clean of Earth right now. Forgive me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-m-burning-a-way-of-life-just-like-that-way-of-life-is-being-burned/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-wald/four-elements-hydrogen-carbon-oxygen-and-nitrogen-also-provide-an/)

[George Wald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-wald/)

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> [“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-c-dennett/every-living-thing-is-from-the-cosmic-perspective-incredibly-lucky-2/)

[Daniel C. Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-c-dennett/)

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> [Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-shubin/take-the-entire-4-5-billion-year-history-of-the-earth-and-scale-it/)

[Neil Shubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-shubin/)

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> [“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/life-in-short-just-wants-to-be-but-and-here-s-an-interesting-point/)

[Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/)

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> [“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/you-think-man-can-destroy-the-planet-what-intoxicating-vanity-let-me/)

[Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/)

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                        "text": "All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.",
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                        "text": "Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a single experiment , for every earthly species evolved from the common ancestry of a single origin. We desperately need a repetition of the experiment (several would be better, but let's not be greedy!) in order to make a judgement. Mars represents our first real hope for a second experiment - the sine qua non - for any proper answer for the question of questions.",
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                        "text": "“No, my point is that life on earth can take of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years is a long year. A hundred years ago, we didn't have cars and airplanes and computers and vaccines...It was a whole different world. But to the earth a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and peaceful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We have been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.”",
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                        "text": "“I'm burning a way of life, just like that way of life is being burned clean of Earth right now. Forgive me if I talk like a politician. I am, after all, a former state governor, and I was honest and they hated me for it. Life on Earth never settled down to doing anything very good. Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines. Wars got bigger and bigger and finally killed Earth. That's what the silent radio means. That's what we ran away from.”",
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                        "text": "Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the \"organic\" molecules that constitute living organisms on a planet, and the nuclei of these same elements interact to generate the light of its star. Then the organisms on the planet come to depend wholly on that starlight, as they must if life is to persist. So it is that all life on the Earth runs on sunlight. [Referring to photosynthesis]",
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                        "text": "“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckiest of the lucky, one out of a thousand or even a million. So however unlucky you may be on some occasion today, your presence on the planet testifies to the role luck has played in your past.”",
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                        "text": "Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.",
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                        "text": "“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This is perhaps a little odd because life has had plenty of time to develop ambitions. If you imagine the 4.5 billion odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes. Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia. At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale. Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow. Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident. Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour. At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins. Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight. The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant. Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless. Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw. And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flashbulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger. It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment. In fact, not many things do for long. Perhaps an even more effective way of grasping our extreme recentness as a part of this 4.5-billion-year-old picture is to stretch your arms to their fullest extent and imagine that width as the entire history of the Earth. On this scale, according to John McPhee in Basin and Range, the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, “and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” Fortunately, that moment hasn’t happened, but the chances are good that it will. I don’t wish to interject a note of gloom just at this point, but the fact is that there is one other extremely pertinent quality about life on Earth: it goes extinct. Quite regularly. For all the trouble they take to assemble and preserve themselves, species crumple and die remarkably routinely. And the more complex they get, the more quickly they appear to go extinct. Which is perhaps one reason why so much of life isn’t terribly ambitious.”",
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                        "text": "“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. 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.”",
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