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Carl Sagan Quotes about Earth

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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Earth, Ruins, Ifs

We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

Nuclear, Earth, Speak

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.357, Ballantine Books

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Cosmos, Earth, Vastness

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.28, Ballantine Books

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

Survival, Earth, Speak

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.349, Ballantine Books

The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.

Mean, Typical, Earth

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

Children, Sky, Earth

"Cosmos". p. 318. Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

Ocean, Space, Earth

"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series, Episode 1: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean, 1990.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

War, Earth, Consciousness

"Cosmos". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 1980.

I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.

Hatred, Vision, Earth

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.199, Ballantine Books

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

Home, Land, Earth

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.17, Ballantine Books

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Loyalty, Cosmos, Earth

"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

Children, Sky, Earth

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.348, Ballantine Books

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

Aristocracy, Earth, Monkeys

We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars.

Stars, Space, Earth

Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Earth, Enthusiasm, Speak

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