Our Planet Quotes - Page 5

• Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Time, Alarms, Wake Up

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• Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

  Vandana Shiva

  Two, Water, Earth

  Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.1, Pluto Press

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• Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

  Michael Shermer

  Powerful, Joints, Moral

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

  Diane Ackerman

  Ideas, Space, Flying

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• If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.

  Eduard Suess

  Science, Space, Clouds

  "The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)" by Eduard Suess, Clarendon Press, (p. 1), 1904.

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• We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came to the conclusion that they are neither friend nor foe, but study our planet and civilization from a mainly scientific perspective. They are as curious to learn more about us, as we would love to study other human and humanoid civilizations.

  Michael Hesemann

  Civilization, Perspective, Patterns

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• Remember that movie Independence Day, where invaders were coming from outer space and the whole world was united against the invasion? Why can't we be united on behalf of our planet? And that's what I want to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Space, Independence, World

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• I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.

  Barry Goldwater

  Strong, Believe, Space

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• Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Intelligent, Reality, Planets

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• If I, as a human being and artist represent anything in the world, it is my Jewish people, and therefore Israel is the only state on our planet which I want to represent with my art and all my public activities, no matter where I live.

  Evgeny Kissin

  Art, Israel, People

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• People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Sea, People

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• Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.

  Tom Hanks

  Country, Impact, World

  Commencement Address at Vassar College, delivered 22 May 2005, Poughkeepsie, NY

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• I used to dream
  I used to glance beyond the stars
  Now I don't know where we are
  although I know we've drifted far
  What about yesterday
  What about the seas
  The heavens are falling down
  I can't even breathe
  What about the bleeding Earth
  Can't we feel its wounds
  What about nature's worth?
  It's our planet's womb.

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Stars, Fall

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• Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

  Jello Biafra

  Race, Environmental, Arms

  Address to the US Green Party, 2000.

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• 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.

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• The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Success, Healing, Differences

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• When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

  Bobby McLeod

  Healing, Sick, Healthy

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• The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit

  Dave Hampton

  Future, Two, People

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• Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it

  Yuri Gagarin

  People, World, Earth

  "Celebrate Space Travel's Past and Future", www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2002.

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• I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

  Alan Shepard

  Peace, Fighting, Space

  "What Does Moon Flight Mean Now" by Josh Getlin, The Seattle Times, p. A10, July 19, 1994.

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Growth

  "To End Poverty, Act on Climate" by Kathy Calvin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Hopeful, Earth Day, Tasks

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• Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

  Ciaran Lynch

  Earth Day, Everyday, Environmental

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• Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.

  Al Gore

  Summer, Creating, Atmosphere

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Coal, Climate Change

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