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Famous Earth Quotes
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhammad Ali
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Khalil Gibran
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. Mahatma Gandhi
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass! Bobby Knight
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Khalil Gibran
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. Evo Morales
Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was. Ransom Riggs
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know. W. H. Auden
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. Rainer Maria Rilke
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor
Earth’s crammed with heaven. But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. Cormac McCarthy
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. Douglas Adams
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Charles Spurgeon
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble. Ellen DeGeneres
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, You owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. Hafez
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. John Wesley
I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you’re born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly. Ocean Vuong
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Charles Dickens
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don’t want to understand you. Anton Chekhov
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. Henry David Thoreau
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Chuck Palahniuk
We are immortal until our work on earth is done. George Whitefield
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. A.W. Tozer
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. George Washington
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. Khalil Gibran
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Joseph
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime. Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth. Saint Patrick
Sometimes I go to God and say, God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me. A.W. Tozer
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. Alexander the Great
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. Terence McKenna
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. Konrad Lorenz
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. Cormac McCarthy
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln
I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. Karl Lagerfeld
The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. Pope John Paul II
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first. Shannon L. Alder
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. Edward Abbey
Modern science says The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Nikola Tesla
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. Pearl S. Buck
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. Gary Snyder
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. Neil Armstrong
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. Stephen Hawking
When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him. Amaka Imani Nkosazana
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Jesus Christ
What you take from the earth, you must give back. That’s nature’s way. Chris d’Lacey
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth. Shirley Chisholm
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. Isaac Newton
It’s funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man’s greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon’s desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry. Jon Stewart
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth. Slavoj Žižek
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard
A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being? Carl Sagan
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains. Al-Ma arri
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing philosophy of the universe through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call stereotypical repetition. Yayoi Kusama
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. David Brower
Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God But only he who sees takes off his shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here. Steven Wright
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things. Lao Tzu
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton
But even in the much publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact the standards of behavior are still those of kind and quantity, the security sought is still the security of numbers, and the chief motive is still the consumer’s anxiety that he is missing out on what is in. In this state of total consumerism which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand. Wendell Berry
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Sitting Bull
National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. Carl Sagan
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. Bradley Whitford
The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way. Carl Sagan
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe. Ron Garan
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson
We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. LeeAnn Taylor
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. Kurt Vonnegut
We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities. Scott Cunningham
Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices. Juice Wrld
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees. Leo Tolstoy
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan
Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over. Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush. Rainer Maria Rilke
The Earth does not belong to us we belong to the Earth. Chief Seattle
