The Earth Quotes
Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.
This is my calling, this is why I was put on this earth-to make a difference in people's lives.
Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.
The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.
The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.
Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. This is a welcome, unique and very personal addition to Drucker's incomparable legacy.
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.
My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.
Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.
Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.
You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.
Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.
The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.
Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.
There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.
I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.
Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?
I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth.