Planetary Quotes

95 quotes by 81 authors

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary… — Eric Chaisson
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? — Gerard K. O'Neill
Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle… — Rebecca Adamson
Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the… — Edgar Morin
As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree. — Jonathan Weiner
Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all,… — Rick Yancey
All cultures forged by nationsâ€”the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth… — Subcomandante Marcos
I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution. — Robert Muller
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin
Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We… — Ashok Gangadean
We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or… — Donella Meadows
Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of… — James Lovelock
You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else. — Bill Nye
The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons… — David Spangler
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where… — William Beebe
The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident. — David Rockefeller
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a… — Mary Roach
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests,… — Paul Davies

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