Earth Quotes - Page 16

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable.

As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.

If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.