Planet Earth Quotes

• Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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  It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eye, Space, Blue

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

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• For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

  Douglas Adams

  Success, New York, War

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Interesting, Nautical

  "Blue Carbon: The Role of Healthy Oceans in Binding Carbon : a Rapid Response Assessment" by Christian Nellemann, Emily Corcoran, UNEP/Earthprint, (p. 23), 2009.

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• The earth is what we all have in common.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Earth Day, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Selfish, Past, Years

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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  We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

  Steve Irwin

  Earth, Wildlife, Share

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.215, Penguin

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• We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

  Evo Morales

  Giving Up, Thinking, Luxury

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• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Nature, Reflection

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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• Who will speak for Planet Earth?

  Carl Sagan

  Earth, Enthusiasm, Speak

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Men, Feet

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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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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• Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Rights, Earth Day

  "Bolivia's defiant leader sets radical tone at Cancún climate talks" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

  Neil Armstrong

  Thumbs, Earth, Planets

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• There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Real, Sea, Rivers

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• I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

  Jane Goodall

  Smart, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

  Barry Commoner

  Earth Day, Environmental, Use

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• 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

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• Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Space, Long, Survival

  "Stephen Hawking: Space Exploration Crucial To Human Survival". The Canadian Press Interview, www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 18, 2011.

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• A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friendship, Taken

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• Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

  Paul Gilding

  Inspirational, Motivational, Growth

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• What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiring, Peace

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

  Robert Orben

  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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