"The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it."

Earth, Nothing, Universe, Want

25

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it."

Exlpore more Earth quotes

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French Writer

Earth, Opinion, Trouble

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Earth,

"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Earth, Death, Life, Learning

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Earth,

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Earth, Rights, Minority

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Earth, Rights, Majority, Minority

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, British Poet

Earth,

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Earth, Forget, Light

"Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings."

Andreas Capellanus, French Writer

Earth, Giving, Gold, Sea

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Earth, Ugly

Explore more quotes by Dennis Weaver

"Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth."

Business

"I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives."

Kids

"When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses."

Rain

"The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent."

Economy

"Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now."

Now

"When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!"

Environment

"We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders."

Economy

"Business must be the solution, not the problem."

Business

"It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone."

Change

"If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know."

Film