Planetary Quotes

95 quotes by 81 authors

Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when.… — Gregory Benford
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not… — Poul Anderson
Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of… — Glenn Beck
The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet,… — Sylvia Earle
In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same… — Rudolph Ballentine
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian… — Fred Thompson
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. — Jamais Cascio
Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. — Al Gore
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the… — Salvador Dali
As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires… — Peter Diamandis
Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry,… — Sylvia Earle
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its… — Jack Kirby
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,… — Carl Sagan
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's… — Lois McMaster Bujold
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for… — Olaf Stapledon
All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images… — George Harrison

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