Earth Quotes - Page 6

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets.

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable and even ridiculous to hold the opposite opinion. However, if we consider it more closely the question will be seen to be still unsettled, and so decidedly not to be despised. For every apparent change in respect of position is due to motion of the object observed, or of the observer, or indeed to an unequal change of both.

Our mission on earth is to recognize the void - inside and outside of us - and fill it.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.