Our Planet Quotes - Page 2

• Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

  Novalis

  Eye, Heaven, Humanity

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.68, SUNY Press

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• Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Weed, Humor

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• Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Dark, Cosmos

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

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• If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more peaceful and vital

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Cells, Community, Healthy

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.254, Hay House, Inc

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• One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.

  Pittacus Lore

  Anger, Insecurity, Planets

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• Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

  Gloria Reuben

  Weather, Climate, Pollution

  "A Night in New York" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2010.

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• It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.

  Douglas Adams

  Special, Details, Nuclear

  "Fictional character: Slartibartfast". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.3", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.

  Gerald Durrell

  Suicide, Suicidal, Erosion

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• We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.

  Natasha Mayers

  Teamwork, Powerful, Creativity

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• If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.

  Janine Benyus

  New Year, Nature, Animal

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• The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

  Yaya Toure

  Children, Animal, Air

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• Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teamwork, Peace, Flames

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Character, Giving, Water

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.29, Vintage

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• When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Beautiful, Space, Earth

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• Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

  Carl Sagan

  Fate, Rivers, Air

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• For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

  J. William Schopf

  Time, History, Historical

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• Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

  Brian Cox

  Dream, Past, Journey

  Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2011). “Wonders of the Universe”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Personality, Insanity

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• Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Garden, People, Mind

  "Has Modern Science Bankrupted Our Souls?" by Bruce Lipton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

  Betty White

  Beautiful, Return, Wilderness

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

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• I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Mother, Believe, Profound

  "Kiefer Sutherland Talks Touch Season 1" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2012.

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• The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Together, Action, Individual

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Mar 03, 2013

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• If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Climate, Looks

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.316, Princeton University Press

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• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  Sally Ride

  Cutting, Views, Space

  "Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead". "All Things Considered", nhpr.org. July 23, 2012.

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• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  Yoko Ono

  Country, Heart, Empathy

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