Earth Quotes

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

The relationship between our civilization and the earth has been radically transformed.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Nicolas Copernicus

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
David Orr

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
Buckminster Fuller

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

This is Major Tom to Ground Control. I'm stepping through the door, And I'm floating in a most peculiar way. And the stars look very different today. For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.

Sudden thy silent beauty on me shone, Fair as the moon had given thee all her spell. Then, as Endymion had found on earth, In unchanged beauty but in fashion changed, Her whom I loved so long; so felt I then, Not that a new love in my heart had birth, But that the old, that far from reach had ranged, Was now on earth, and to be loved of men.

This is the year which people will talk about This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die. The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours. The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.

Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

But the inner part is the better part; for to it, as both ruler and judge, all these messengers of the senses report the answers of heaven and earth and all the things therein, who said, "We are not God, but he made us." My inner man knew these things through the ministry of the outer man, and I, the inner man, knew all this I, the soul, through the senses of my body. I asked the whole frame of earth about my God, and it answered, "I am not he, but he made me."

We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine.

Abstract forms can contain, retain or absorb real forces...objective depictions are all more or less burdened by earth's gravity and their pinions are not free.
Willi Baumeister

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.
Sandra Bernhard







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