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Earth Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these…
- Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country…
- The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is…
- On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for…
- But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your…
- The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
- We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we…
More Earth Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann