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Earth Quotes
"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."
59
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
58
"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it."
58
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
57
"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves."
57
"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
56
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
55
"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."
54
"We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab."
53
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."
53
"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."
53
"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."
52
"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."
52
"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."
52
"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
52
"Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany."
52
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
51
"The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?"
51
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
51
"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."
51
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
51
"However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!"
50
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."
50
"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."
50
"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."
50
"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."
50
"It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am."
49
"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
49
"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."
49
"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."
49
"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."
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