Earth Quotes And Sayings

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“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
– C. S. Lewis

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
– Langston Hughes

“Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.”
– Tommy Douglas

“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.”
– George Washington

“Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center — an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman’s earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.”
– Archibald MacLeish

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Now I know why I’m here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.”
– Alfred Worden

“Oddly enough the overriding sensation I got looking at the earth was, my god that little thing is so fragile out there.”
– Mike Collins

“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.”
– Jules Renard

“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
– Tashunka Witko

“Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”
– Author Voltaire

“Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.”
– Lord Byron

“Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you will die too.”
– John Hollow Horn

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
– Robert Browning

“That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.”
– Helen Keller

“The “kingdom of Heaven” is a condition of the heart – not something that comes “upon the earth” or “after death.”"
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected, like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
– Chief Seattle

“The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.”
– Chanakya

“The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.”
– Gertrude Stein

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”
– Chief Joseph

“The earth is what we all have in common.”
– Wendell Berry

“The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth’s ancient biosphere.”
– E. O. Wilson

“The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.”
– Blaise Pascal

“The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.”
– J. Paul Getty

“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves a riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now they are truly brothers”
– Archibald MacLeish

“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.”
– Ancient proverb

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