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Earth Quotes by John Burroughs
- There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
- The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these…
- Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is…
- Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
- To see Earth fully we already need to love it
- When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on…
- The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd…
- Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and…
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