"O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf…" — Edgar Lee Masters

More Earth Quotes

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• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
• It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
• I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
• It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
• I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
• Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
• What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
• Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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