Best Earth Thoughts
10102 Earth quotes by 4564 unique authors
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape…
— N. Scott Momaday
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If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of…
— Unknown Author
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to…
— Charles Dickens
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In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think…
— James Jeans
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The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.
— George W. Bush
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There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.
— Cynthia Heimel
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The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.
— Zig Ziglar
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There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
— Duke of Wellington
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A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth
— Gerald Massey
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Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade…
— Charles Darwin
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Without love no life left on earth.
— Unknown Author
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Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church,…
— Henry D. Moyle
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Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
— Helen Caldicott
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How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net…
— Hsu Yun
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Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth is full of…
— Judah Halevi
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was…
— Unknown Author
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I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which…
— Bernard Moitessier
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The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.
— Unknown Author
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Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.
— Julian Huxley
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.
— Stella McCartney
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A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.
— Laura Gilpin
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