Earth Quote by David Grinspoon

“There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.” quote by David Grinspoon — Download Open image

“There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.”

David Grinspoon

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I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

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I'd been politically active ever since my parents wheeled me in a stroller in a 'ban the bomb' march in Boston in 1963.

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Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted.

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The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa…

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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…

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“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…

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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

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…

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Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

Beryl Markham

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Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of…

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Then all this earth shines like one house.

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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters…

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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…

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