Our Planet Quotes - Page 3

• I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

  Jody Williams

  Spiritual, Believe, Worry

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• . . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people who have no interest in a communal solution to the distortions in our lives will have to face up [to] this ecological reality. Unless we transform our relationship with nature, we will destroy the preconditions for human life on this planet.

  Michael Lerner

  Reality, People, Way

  Michael Lerner (2000). “Spirit Matters”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Profound, Way

  President Barack Obama's remarks on climate change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.

  Ban Ki-moon

  War, Winter, Humanity

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• I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Children, Creating, Important

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• This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

  Barack Obama

  Ocean, Energy, Environment

  Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Energy, Too Late, Global Warming

  "Schwarzenegger Backs Global Warming Bill". The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 27, 2006.

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• We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

  Al Gore

  This Generation, Generations, Done

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• I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

  Richard Branson

  One Day, Energy, Meat

  "McCartneys launch veggie campaign and more in Mirror.co.uk's Monday gossip round-up". www.mirror.co.uk. June 15, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.

  Dan Brown

  Moving, Moon, Littles

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• 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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• The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Community, Forever

  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.269, Macmillan

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• In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sweet, Heart, Love Life

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.172, Vintage

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• That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, War, Home

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• By eating meat we share responsibility for causing climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian can make a difference in the health of our planet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Peace, Responsibility

  "The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology". Book by Nhat Hanh, September 1, 2008.

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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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• 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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