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Earth Quotes
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
105
"You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through."
78
"The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us."
70
"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"
60
"We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter."
56
"You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle."
54
"No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another."
54
"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
48
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
47
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
46
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
40
"Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here."
40
"Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is."
38
"Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation."
38
"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
38
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
38
"But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers."
36
"I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way."
36
"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
35
"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
35
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
34
"Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun."
33
"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."
33
"For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth."
33
"Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing."
33
"There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them."
31
"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
31
"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
31
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
31
"That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth."
31
"It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere."
30
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