Top 72 Earth Quotes

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The Earth is our home. We need to take care of it. With that in  mind, check out the top 72 Earth quotes.

#72 – 70. Earth Quotes

72. He that plants trees loves others beside himself. – Thomas Fuller

71. The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.  –  Pope John Paul II

70. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.  –  Carl Sagan

#69 – 60. Earth Quotes

69. …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 legitimate hope.  –  Wendell Berry

68. It’s only when you’re flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.  – Philippe Perrin

67. The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit  –  this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.  –  Johann von Goethe

66. If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.  –  Douglas Jerrold

65. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.  –  Mahatma Gandhi

64. The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.  –  Daniel Dennett

63. We live on this speck called Earth – think about what you might do, today or tomorrow – and make the most of it. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

62. Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better. – Einstein

61. The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.  –  Thomas Jefferson

60. Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.  –  Max Lucado

#59 – 50. Earth Quotes

59. The earth is simply too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. – Robert A. Heinlein

58. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. – Carl Sagan

57. The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.  –  Clarence Darrow

56. When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water. – Benjamin Franklin

55. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. – John Muir

54. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.  –  Rachel Carson

53. Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.  –  Charles A. Lindbergh

52. Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. – William Alexander

51. The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.  –  Leo Tolstoy

50. Touch the earth, feel the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.  –  Henry Beston

#49 – 40. Earth Quotes

49. This world is but a canvas to our imagination.  – Henry David Thoreau

48. As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I’m the Earth. I won’t give up until the Earth gives up.  –  Alice Walker

47. Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home.  –  S.G. Rainbolt

46. The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.  –  Richard Buckminster Fuller

45. Not all those who wander are lost – J.R.R. Tolkien

44. On Earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. – Jules Renard

43. Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. – Zhuangzi

42. When we honor the earth, we honor ourselves. – L.M. Wilde

41. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.  –  Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

40. The world is in balance <…>. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.  –  Ursula K. LeGuin

#39 – 30. Earth Quotes

39. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. – Mahatma Gandhi

38. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.  –  Wendell Berry

37. If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.  –  Joseph Wood Krutch

36. The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains. – Al – Maʿarri

35. The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there. – J.R.R. Tolkien

34. The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.  – Friedrich Nietzsche

33. There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.  –  Marshall McLuhan

32. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.  –  Native American Proverb

31. The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.  –  Ursula K. LeGuin

30. We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft.  –  Adlai Stevenson

#29 – 20. Earth Quotes

29. Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations. – Amit Ray

28. Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.  –  Charles A. Lindbergh

27. The best investment on earth is earth.  –  Louis J. Glickman

26. Everything costs and costs the earth.  –  Maya Angelou

25. Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.  –  Viktor Schauberger

24. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. – C.S. Lewis

23. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. – David Sarnoff

22. The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.  –  Marlee Matlin

21. Be the change you wish to see in this world. – Gandhi

20. Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. – Walt Whitman

#19 – 10. Earth Quotes

19. The threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet  –  it’s a threat to us.  –  Margaret Atwood

18. Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.  –  John Burroughs

17. … do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue – green, living Earth.  –  Dave Foreman

16. The earth has music for those who listen. – George Santayana

15. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.  –  Bertrand Russell

14. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.  –  Daniel Webster

12. The earth is what we all have in common.  –  Wendell Berry

11. Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.  –  Richard Buckminster Fuller

10. For the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof.  –  Bible

#9 – 1. Earth Quotes

9. Where flowers bloom, so does hope. – Lady Bird Johnson

8. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.  –  Baha’U’Llah

7. In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which affect all of mankind. But local solutions, inevitably conditioned by local interests, are required for the problems peculiar to each human settlement.  –  Ren

6. The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.  –  Hannah Arendt

5. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. – Rachel Carson

4. Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.  –  Henry Beston

3. The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.  –  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

2. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. – J.R.R. Tolkien

1. The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.  –  Friedrich Nietzsche

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