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Planets Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
- Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and…
- The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a…
- We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by…
- Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
- I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile…
More Planets Quotes
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — 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
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood
- The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach