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Earth Quotes
"You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through."
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"The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us."
175
"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."
166
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
158
"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"
157
"No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another."
154
"You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle."
129
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
90
"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
81
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
80
"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."
79
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
76
"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."
72
"Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun."
70
"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."
69
"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."
68
"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
68
"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."
68
"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
67
"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."
66
"Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is."
65
"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
65
"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."
65
"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."
63
"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform."
62
"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
62
"That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth."
62
"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."
61
"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
61
"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."
61
"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."
59
"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."
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