Earth Quote by Charles Fort Download Open image “The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.” — Charles Fort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earth Property
The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land gets cultivated, "it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is in individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent..to every person, rich… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done… — Katherine Hannigan Copy Share Image
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish… — Massasoit Copy Share Image
We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife. — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
“The Earth is not an inheritance received from our ancestors, nor a possession secured by ownership. It is a sacred trust held briefly within… — Shree Shambav Copy Share Image
“Earth as the standard by which to judge all actions transacted on our planet. From such a point of view, we all are Earth… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer… — Charles Fort Copy Share
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“Is life worth living? Like everybody else, I have many times asked that question, usually deciding negatively, because I am most likely to ask myself whether life is worth living, at times when I am convinced it isn't. One day, in one of my frequent, and probably incurable, scientific moments, it occurred to me to find out. For a month,… — Charles Fort Copy Share
All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned. — Charles Fort Copy Share
I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“I sent letters of enquiry to all persons whose names were given, and received not one reply. There are several ways of explaining. One is that it is probable that persons who have experiences such as those told of in this book, receive so many "crank letters" that they answer none. Dear me — once upon a time, I enjoyed… — Charles Fort Copy Share
“We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out” — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation. 2. Man-made wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. 3. Exposure to man-made electricity. 4. Eclipsing of the Sun by the International Space Station (ISS), satellites, airplanes and jet aircraft contrails (chemtrails). 5. Eating food forced grown using… — Steven Magee Copy Share
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image