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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."
30
"No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another."
27
"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."
23
"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"
22
"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
22
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
20
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
20
"Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is."
17
"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."
17
"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
16
"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."
11
"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
10
"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."
10
"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."
10
"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."
10
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
9
"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
9
"Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
8
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
8
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
7
"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
7
"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform."
7
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
7
"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest."
7
"Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit."
7
"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."
7
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
7
"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."
7
"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital."
7
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."
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