Planets Quotes · Page 20

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

— Helen Clark

We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing…

— Sylvia Earle

I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.

— Jeff Corwin

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

— Jaden Smith

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

— Jonathan Cainer

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

— George Leonard

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

— Sally Ride

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the…

— Pope Francis

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple…

— Victoria Moran

Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't…

— Bill Maher

Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take…

— Pat Condell

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any…

— Norman Cousins

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it…

— Anna Quindlen

The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are…

— Alice Walker

Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet … No national law, no national precautions can save the…

— Thor Heyerdahl

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims…

— Carl Sagan

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would…

— Yoko Ono

Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far…

— Brett Ratner

People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take…

— Kesha Rogers

If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and…

— Al Gore

What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting…

— Mark Steyn

I can’t say that there are “things” that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are…

— Marianne Williamson

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

— Alice Walker

I'm an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets.

— Mike Oldfield

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

— Ken Robinson

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save…

— Alanis Morissette

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

— Steven Moffat

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

— Jon Stewart

8 planets, 1 universe, 204 countries, 809 islands, 7 seas and I just had to find yo dumbass..

— Sniper Alpacino

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

— Andrew Young

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of…

— E. O. Wilson

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

— Jermaine Jackson

This is the only planet with chocolate, so we've got to save it.

— David Wolfe

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

— Eduard Suess

There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

— Anonymous

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

— Shari Arison

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower