Earth Quotes - Page 4

I speak as a planetary physician whose patient, the living Earth, complains of fever; I see the Earth's declining health as our most important concern, our very lives depending upon a healthy Earth. Our concern for it must come first, because the welfare of the burgeoning mass of humanity demands a healthy planet.

James E. Lovelock

God has chosen to make the heavens his jurisdiction while at the same time he himself makes it very clear that the earth has been given to man as man’s sphere of influence.

Sunday Adelaja

We Christians are bound hands and feet, sitting down in the pews instead of going out to explore the earth for the Son of God, king of kings and the Lord of Lords

Sunday Adelaja

The earth is crying for people who make sound judgment and informed decisions

Sunday Adelaja

It is clear looking at statistics of inventions, discoveries and fortune 500 companies, that it is not the believers that are managing the affairs of the earth. What a tragedy!!!

Sunday Adelaja

The doctrines that have been preached in our churches in Africa and globally has not been helpful for believers to dominate the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

But ironically the believers have done worse in exploring the earth than sons of men who are not even believers have done.

Sunday Adelaja

The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.

Sunday Adelaja

The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the agnostics, those who are out rightly atheist, don’t have to fight with whether they are supposed to dominate the earth or not, they just go ahead and do it

Sunday Adelaja

The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. The earth is man’s domain. Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.

Sunday Adelaja

More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son

Sunday Adelaja

Fifteen years ago I had an odd dream. In it, a medicinal plant that I was interested in, an Usnea lichen that is ubiquitous on trees throughout the world, told me that while it was good for healing human lungs it was primarily a medicine for the lungs of the planet, the trees. When I awoke, I was amazed. It had never occurred to me in quite that way that plants have some life and purpose outside their use to human beings.

Stephen Harrod Buhner

Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.

Sarah Noffke

But Nature granted to gold and silver no function with which we cannot easily dispense. Human folly has made them precious because they are rare. In contrast, Nature, like a most indulgent mother, has placed her best gifts out in the open, like air, water and the earth itself; vain and unprofitable things she has hidden away in remote places.

Thomas More

Love the Earth You Make Love On

Susan Block

The earth is grounding while the mountains, curvaceous and sweeping, offer a blanket of refuge. Their woods are abounding in camouflage as their leaves sway about in continuous, florid dance. There is an air of invulnerability that is exclusive to the woods, which is why she’s most happy among them. She doesn’t mind beasts as they are preferable to humans and much less threatening; beasts, you see, although dangerous, are incapable of the enmity that permeates beyond the shade of the woods.

Donna Lynn Hope

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

The Truth

I am the dust and dirt from which this earth grows.

Sima Mittal

The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

The Truth

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.

Bill Bryson

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of Earth: We arrived, we're humanizing the Earth, and it will be the destiny of Earth for us to wipe humans out and most of the rest of biodiversity. But I think the great majority of thoughtful people consider that a morally wrong position to take, and a very dangerous one.

Edward O. Wilson

So when I watch trains, it makes me think about how much movement there is in the world. How every train has dozens of cars and every car has hundreds of parts, and all those parts and cars work day after day. And then there are all these other motions. People are born and die. Seasons change. Rivers flow to the sea. Earth circles the sun and the moon circles Earth. Everything whirring and spinning toward something. And I get to be part of it for a little while, the way I get to watch a train for a minute or two, and then it's gone.

Jeff Zentner

What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.

Alexander McCall Smith

Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

Tom Robbins

The world is a clock winding down.I hear it in the wind’s icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in Teacup’s chest as she sleeps. The hammering of her heart, the rhythm of her breath, warm in the freezing air, the clock winding down.

Rick Yancey

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can’t take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

Brenda Hiatt

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

Sandra Dallas

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

Daniel Dennett

The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other.

Marty Rubin

The whole point of life is to learn love. Life is the school, love is the lesson and we are all here to teach each other.

Kate McGahan

My God, my GodMay there be no endTo the sea, to the sand,The splash of the water,The glow of the sky,The prayer of man

Hannah Senesh

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence.

Marjorie Spiegel

Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Hopefully one day we will pledge allegiance to the Earth and ALL the people on it.

Rick Lepard

People think they are here on earth to spend life

Sunday Adelaja

Life itself demands change from every dweller of planet earth.

Sunday Adelaja

There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

Even though God rules in the affairs of men, yet the earth is not God’s jurisdiction.

Sunday Adelaja

This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.

Doris Lessing

It is necessary to understand that the next person is just as important as you are on this earth. So no one should undermine others based on their current circumstances.

Gugu Mona

People are here on Earth to improve their own energy. It is not the Earth’s energy and the Earth’s force that need to be improved.

Anni Sennov

Everyone can only succeed with their own Dharma.

Anni Sennov

The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only distance and air.

James S.A. Corey

If everyone was cognisant of their purpose on earth, we would only need weapons for hunting and nothing else.

Gugu Mona

There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs!

Captain America - The Avengers...The Age of Ultron

The earth was a grave: our life was lent to it by its elements and had to be returned: a time came when the simple elements seemed to long for release from the complicated forms of life, when every element of every cell said, "Enough!" The planet was our mother and our burial ground. No wonder the human spirit wished to leave. Leave this prolific belly. Leave also this great tomb. Passion for the infinite caused by the terror, by timor mortis, needed material appeasement.

Saul Bellow

The multiplicity of human identity is not just a spiritual principle, it’s a biological fact—a basic ecological reality. ... only 10% of the cells in your body belong to you. The rest are the cells of bacteria and microorganisms that call your body home, and without these symbionts living on and within your physical self, you would be unable to digest and process the nutrients necessary to keep you alive. Your physical body is teeming with a microscopic diversity of life that rivals a rainforest. The insight of the Gaia Theory—that “the Earth system behaves as a single self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and human components”—is as much a statement about our own physical bodies as it is about the planet. If we imagine the Earth as the body of a goddess, we can also imagine our own bodies as a sacred home to an ecologically complex and diverse array of microscopic life." -- Alison Leigh Lilly, "Naming the Water: Human and Deity Identity from an Earth-Centered Perspective

John Halstead

If the well-being of my loved place depends on the well-being of Earth, I have a good reason for supporting the well-being of your loved place. I have selfish as well as cosmopolitan reasons for preserving the home-places of all human beings. Cosmopolitanism becomes thicker and more potent with this realization.

Nel Noddings

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Complete people gaze into the blue sky above, plunge into the center of the earth below, and run freely in the eight directions without even a change of mood.

Liezi

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something I didn’t really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance.

John Scalzi

Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

Grant Morrison

We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The serious people have gone, I build my team again and again I just the un-sirious people if this is sirious let's see a bus which can be handled in the air by the weakest person on the Earth.

Deyth Banger

While understanding that we need this matrix to experience life on earth, we should also be able to enjoy a certain sense of detachment from it, and thus feel more empowered to make our own choices. We should thus come out feeling much more in control of our own personal journeys.

Julia Woodman

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.

Zora Neale Hurston

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.

Franz Kafka

The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion years it will have receded so far that it won’t keep us steady and we will have to come up with some other solution, but in the meantime you should think of it as much more than just a pleasant feature in the night sky.

Bill Bryson

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