Our Planet Quotes - Page 5

• The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Weather, Climate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not have the words or the experience to teach me about the miraculous cycle in my body - the cycle that is responsible for all human life on our planet and connects us to the moon and the tides. Nor did she have the words to teach me about the gift of sensual pleasure that is the birthright of all girls. If she had, my life surely would have been different. For one, I probably would not have suffered from devastating menstrual cramps for decades.

  Christiane Northrup

  Girl, Mother, Pregnancy

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• There is a lot of flesh to be put on the bones - but there is at least an opening for a more pragmatic, less ideological debate about how to build economies that work for people, within the limits of our planet.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  People, Flesh, Limits

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We have to make our economy work for everyone - not just those at the top - protecting our country and protecting our planet.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Economy, Planets

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Planets, Former

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater itself is 100 kilometers across. It was so monumental, what happened, that for a very long time the entire atmosphere of our planet was darkened. It's not the lava and the heat per se; it's the obscuring of the entire atmosphere, and it made it very difficult for the human race to survive.

  Werner Herzog

  Real, Years, Race

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of humanity's most enlightened people.... A shared reappraisal of Jesus' message could provide a unique space or common ground for urgently needed religious dialogue - and it doesn't seem an exaggeration to say that the future of our planet may depend on such dialogue. This reappraisal of Jesus' message may be the only project capable of saving a number of religions.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Religious, Jesus, Buddhist

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• There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.

  Brian Swimme

  Destiny, Mysterious, Planets

  Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker (2011). “Journey of the Universe”, p.96, Yale University Press

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• I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.

  Eugene Richards

  Two, Order, Years

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• Together, leading the world, the U.S.A. will rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS.

  Bernie Sanders

  Isis, Organization, Together

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Thinking, People, Despair

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• Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a great privilege and what an enormous joy to be living here!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Joy, Privilege

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• Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Giving, Profound

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• There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This way of life is both what is most damaging to us as a culture, and, paradoxically, contributes to its richness. It may in the end be our lasting contribution to the life of our planet.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Loneliness, Degrees, Culture

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Luxury, House, Care

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• Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

  Julia Hill

  Mean, Our World, Community

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• It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Issues, People, Important

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• Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Ocean, Mean, Law

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• Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.

  Roger Caras

  Hurt, Two, Magic

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• The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Ocean, Finals, Dramatic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.

  Brian Cox

  Home, Surface, Beacons

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• Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

  Steve Allen

  Laughter, Thinking, Humanity

  Steve Allen (1981). “Funny people”, Stein & Day Pub

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• John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.

  Ted Turner

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Land

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• Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

  April Gornik

  Real, Fighting, Animal

  "Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

  April Gornik

  Funny Relationship, Use, Care

  "Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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