Earth Quotes - page 6

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. (Charles Lindbergh)
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it... free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
Alexander Pope
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. View quote
Adnan Oktar
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. View quote
Gore Vidal
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. View quote
Robert Frost
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. View quote
Stephen Hawking
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world. View quote
Margaret Mead
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. (Morihei Ueshiba)
The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. View quote
Anne Rice
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The interior of the earth is extremely hot - several million degrees. View quote
Al Gore
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. View quote
Steven Wright
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve? View quote
Morrissey
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children. View quote
Marvin Minsky
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. View quote
George W. Bush
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable. (Jacques Chirac)
Courage, then, my countrymen, 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. View quote
Samuel Adams
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. View quote
John Wesley
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave. View quote
Temple Grandin
Was there nought better than to enjoy No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due No forcing earth teach heaven's employ. View quote
Robert Browning