Earth Quotes - Page 66

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.

The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.

You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.

I know why superman left krypton. Earth was the only place where he could get steriods!

Kill me, I don't care. I do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.

Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!

Everything costs and costs the earth.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.