Earth Quotes
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Barry, Wendell
The earth is what we all have in common.
Barry, Wendell
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.
Carson, Rachel
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Chinese Proverb
Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
Coekran, Bourke
There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
Ghandi, Mahatma
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Hageman, Samuel M.
Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God.
Jefferson, Thomas
The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
Krutch, Joseph Wood
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Lewis, C.S.
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Mannes, Marya
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Morley, Christopher
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
Mumford, Lewis
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Native American Proverb
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
Pascal, Blaise
The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
Pinchot, Gifford
The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.
Sarnoff, David
Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
Sears, Paul Bigelow
How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?
Shaw, George Bernard
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.
Thoreau, Henry David
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Thoreau, Henry David
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Thoreau, Henry David
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
White, Elwyn Brooks
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Whitman, Walt
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
Whittier, John Greenleaf
The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.