Contradiction Quote by William Irwin Thompson

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“If we're stuck on one world, we're limited to a single case; we don't know what else is possible. Then—like an art fancier familiar…

— Carl Sagan

Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

— Josh Gates

The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human…

— Thomas Berry

Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets,…

— Olaf Stapledon

We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the…

— H. Bentley Glass

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

— Errol Morris

The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to…

— Bill O'Reilly

We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being…

— David Grinspoon

Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate…

— David Grinspoon

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single…

— David Suzuki

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

— Theodore Zeldin