Planets Quotes - Page 25

• I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

  Carl Jung

  Circles, Resistance, Sun

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

  Gregory Keyes

  Saws, Apes, Obsessed

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• We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.

  John Updike

  Lying, Space, Blue

  John Updike (2006). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.280, Penguin UK

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• Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

  Stewart Udall

  Land, Choices, Titles

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

  Mark Pocan

  Believe, Leaving, Climate

  "Recent Reports Show Need for Congress to Act on Climate Change" by Rep. Mark Pocan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2014.

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• The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.

  Stella McCartney

  Fashion, Animal, Years

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• In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Body, Action

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.35, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

  David Attenborough

  Views, Humanity, Manage

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• I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.

  Stan Lee

  Nice, Philosophical, Race

  "A Chat With Stan Lee, `Godfather' Of Marvel Comics". Interview with Chip & Jonathan Carter, articles.chicagotribune.com. January 19, 1996.

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• Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or theories that apply to the greatest ambit of things in the world. And if you've only made a very good theory about snails, or a very good theory about some planets but not about the universe as a whole, or about all the history of humankind, then you have in some sense accepted a lower position in the hierarchy of the fame of science as it's taught to you as a young student.

  Richard Lewontin

  Believe, Discovery, Age

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I also remember that Snoop Dogg visited the set in New York, with a joint in his mouth that looked like a cigar. There's your anger management. I thought, "Isn't he going to get arrested?" It was like he lived on another planet. God bless him, he was very nice. Who wouldn't be nice when you're that stoned?

  Kurt Fuller

  New York, Nice, Joints

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think about our planet. I mean how to make it a better planet. The global warming issue is a concern to me very much. Just make the world a better, happier place. It's our home. I'd like to see us do a better job of taking care of it.

  Michael Jackson

  Jobs, Home, Mean

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Pain, Compassion

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

  Jane Goodall

  Size, Increase, Women's Education

  "Jane Goodall Works To Help Humans, Too". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 12, 2010.

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• I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Civilization, People, Needs

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

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• Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, Writing, Night

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• The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.

  Terence McKenna

  Reflection, Self, Track

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• We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Moving, Past

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• I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Bros, Mario, Haircuts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Children, Light

  "Small, Cheap and a Giant Leap for Britain". www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.

  Loren Eiseley

  Lonely, Wine, Sunset

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• Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Nice, Believe, Vanity

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• The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

  Alain Ducasse

  Resources

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• Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.

  William McDonough

  Nature, Taken, Animal

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.16, Macmillan

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• The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Environmental, Energy, Woe

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