Globes Quotes

393 Globes quotes by 326 unique authors

As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot… — James Hutton
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and… — William Buckland
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and… — Unknown Author
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life… — Eduard Suess
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by… — William Buckland
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling… — Henry David Thoreau
Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood. Missing their mother.… — Danny Glover
Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow… — Barack Obama
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people who want to… — Bill O'Reilly
Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't… — Rupert Murdoch
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by… — Adam Sedgwick
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a… — John Ensign
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall… — William Jacob Holland
Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet… — John Foley
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who… — Pope John Paul II
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at… — E. O. Wilson
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility… — Unknown Author

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