Beautiful Earth Quotes - Page 3

• Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

  Rachel Carson

  Strength, Beauty, Nature

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

  Barry Commoner

  Earth Day, Environmental, Use

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• Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Home, Science, Moon

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Web Of Life, Earth Day

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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• Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

  Rachel Carson

  Inspirational, Time, Nature

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Healing, Wilderness

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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  Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

  Jane Goodall

  Life, Strong Women, Differences

  "Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017.

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• As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Nature, Space

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• The earth is what we all have in common.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Earth Day, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  James F. Cooper

  Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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• The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

  Alexey Leonov

  Believe, Home, Light

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• The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

  Frank Borman

  Distance, War, Moon

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• For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

  Mary J. Blige

  I Like You, Looks, Time On Earth

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• As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.

  James Irwin

  Beautiful, Fall, Men

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• There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Earth Day, Tiny

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Eggs, Space

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• We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.

  Chief Seattle

  Earth

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• The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

  Chief Seattle

  Beautiful, Death, Country

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• This beautiful Earth that we have, this gift that the Universe has given us is precious beyond measure, precious beyond imagination, and we are part of it and we must treat it with Love, respect, and reverence.

  Graham Hancock

  Beautiful, Imagination, Earth

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