best quotations about
Earth |
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Quotations
 | The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 7 likes |
 | If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 5 likes |
 | How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 5 likes |
 | There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 5 likes |
 | The earth laughs in flowers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | You're on Earth. There's no cure for that. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 3 likes |
 | The earth has music for those who listen. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
| We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 2 likes |
 | I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 2 likes |
 | To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. |
 | The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. |
 | If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. |
 | The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are. |
 | When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. |
Latin Quotes
 | What once sprung from earth sinks back into the earth. Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante, in terras. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet 10 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired. |
Funny Quotes
 | Humanity is a disease of the earth. There are no humans on healthy planets. |
Ancient Greek
 | Everything comes from earth and everything ends in earth. Εκ γαίης γαρ πάντα και εις γην πάντα τελευτά. — Xenophanes, 570-480 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | Earth breeds all and takes back all. Άπαντα τίκτει χθών πάλιν τε και λαμβάνειν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Antioppe 7 likes |
| We all come from earth and water. Πάντες γαίης τε και ύδατος εκγενόμεθα. — Xenophanes, 570-480 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature. — American Indian proverb ‐ Oglala Sioux 4 likes |
| We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth. — American Indian proverb ‐ Shenandoah 4 likes |
