Earth Quotes - Page 12

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  33 Copy quote

• So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Teamwork, Powerful, Light

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi (pp. 287-289), 1935.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Earth Day

  50 Copy quote

• And the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Geddy Lee

  Ties, Horizon, Modesty

  20 Copy quote

• The poetry of the earth is never dead.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  16 Copy quote

• We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Enlightenment, Needs, Planets

  9 Copy quote

• O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

  Madame de Stael

  Flower, Blood, Years

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Cities, Police

  1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1964.

  183 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Men, Sea

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  185 Copy quote

  Show source

• The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

  Hal Borland

  Distance, Eye, Autumn

  21 Copy quote

• In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.114, Beacon Press

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. Things come full circle, back to where they started. That's revolution.

  Russell Means

  Mother, Simple, Order

  "I Am Not a Leader": Russell Means’ 1980 Mother Jones Cover Story, www.motherjones.com.

  151 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Men, Society

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Nature, Earth Day

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Laughter, Being Alone

  'Solitude'

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Views, Space, Glimpse

  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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.

  Scott Carpenter

  Loyalty, Country, Lonely

  68 Copy quote

• I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Adventure

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

  122 Copy quote

  Show source

• Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Nature, Children, Rivers

  67 Copy quote

• The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Life, Nature, Fate

  84 Copy quote

• My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.

  Franklin Chang Diaz

  Freedom, Future, Humanity

  "Rocket Scientist". Interview with Josh Seftel, www.pbs.org. May 1, 2009.

  98 Copy quote

  Show source

• The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

  James Hutton

  Science, Past, History

  "Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Book published by Royal Society of Edinburgh, "Theory of the Earth", 1785.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Cat, Clouds

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

  39 Copy quote

  Show source