Earth Quotes

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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  People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  Crazy Horse

  Children, Native American, Parent

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• Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

  Khalil Gibran

  I Love You, Dream, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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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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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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  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

  Eye, Space, Blue

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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• Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Happiness, Faith

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 05, 2010

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  The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Travel, Men

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• Be gentle with the earth.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Buddhist, Environmental

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• I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Country, Fighting, Countries Of The World

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• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Nature, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Daughter, Ocean, Clouds

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

  Margaret Mead

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  In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.148, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

  Henry Beston

  Love, Sea, Valleys

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Animal, Leaves Of Grass

  "Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition".

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• 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.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Life, Family

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• Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Nature, Return

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  When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Stars

  Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

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• The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Inspire

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.599, Cambridge University Press

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• Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Uplifting, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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