166 Planet Earth Quotes

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Famous Planet Earth Quotes

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it — Ban Ki-moon

The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing — Yuri Gagarin

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it. — Paul McCartney

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet. — Valentina Tereshkova

This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent. — Doreen Valiente

The earth is blue like an orange. — Paul Eluard

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

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. - Gaylord Nelson

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind. — Gaylord Nelson

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth. — Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation. — Yuri Gagarin

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. — Bahá'u'lláh

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity. — Dalai Lama

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed! — Hildegard of Bingen

Short Planet Earth Quotes

  • We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife. — Steve Irwin
  • Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. — Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Geography is the study of earth as the home of people — Yi-Fu Tuan
  • there is no Plan B because there is no Planet B — Mohamed Nasheed
  • The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. — Chief Seattle
  • The Earth needs rebels! — David Icke
  • Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith

Top 10 Planet Earth Quotes

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! — Yuri Gagarin

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children — Chief Seattle

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. — Paracelsus

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die. — Chief Seattle

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. — Lady Bird Johnson

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from. — Terry Tempest Williams

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum. — Voltaire

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Kenneth E. Boulding

My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet. — Franklin Chang Diaz

Planet Earth Image Quotes

Planet earth quote The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, he
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.

Save Planet Earth Quotes

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner

Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth. — Barack Obama

The human race will be the cancer of the planet. — Julian Huxley

Planet earth quote Be still, and the earth will speak to you.
Be still, and the earth will speak to you.

Forests are the lungs of our land. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. — Jeremy Rifkin

If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system. — Evo Morales

Planet earth quote Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

You can say that this is just what aerospace medicine is all about - to save the lives of the men who climb to the high reaches above the Earth and beyond this planet. — Martin Caidin

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. — Nhat Hanh

Life On Planet Earth Quotes

When a certain number of people come together and they choose at a moment in time to create a precise emotion in their hearts, that emotion literally can intentionally influence the very fields that sustain the life on planet earth. — Gregg Braden

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. — Laurel Clark

If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. — Mary Daly

Planet earth quote Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured. — Werner Herzog

Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives. — James Joyce

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels. — David Icke

Planet earth quote The earth has music for those who listen.
The earth has music for those who listen.

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses. — Nathan Wolfe

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth. — Gordon Cooper

"Christ" is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole "Jesus" piece would not make sense anymore. If he did everything for just us on this planet he wouldn't be the savior of the "world." — Richard Rohr

Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth. — Timothy Leary

Love Planet Earth Quotes

The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising. — Bill McKibben

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. — Barry Commoner

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it. — Matt Haig

Planet earth quote The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, heal
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth. — Michael Jackson

In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world. — Eva Burrows

Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life. — Thomas Keating

Planet earth quote Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

Every single human being on this earth make a difference on this planet earth but each one of us make a different contribution and it will be a better contribution when we have more gratitude and more generosity, when we love more. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much. — David Bowie

The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars. — Arthur Miller

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Our Planet Earth Quotes

Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up of the same things. As humans we have being, so everything on the earth does too in our culture, because we are made of the same thing. — John Trudell

The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been on our planet. — Khalid Abdul Muhammad

There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets. — Gus Grissom

Planet earth quote Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished If you're alive it isn't.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished If you're alive it isn't.

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space. — Alan Shepard

The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is. — Sally Ride

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship. — Rick Rubin

Planet earth quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the eart
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction. — Murray Bookchin

During the Atlantean Cycle, the earth's aura, the invisible astral energy field that surrounds and protects our planet and through which all psychic perception flows, was very pure. — Frederick Lenz

During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate. — Frederick Lenz

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves. — Bobby McLeod

Our Planet Quotes

During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way. — Lierre Keith

Planet earth quote Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth ca
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed? — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack. — Leon Trotsky

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need. — Vandana Shiva

Planet earth quote Nature is my religion. The earth is my temple.
Nature is my religion. The earth is my temple.

This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice. — Donald Trump

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits. — John Dickinson

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet. — Fidel Castro

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. — Richard Gere

Round Planet Quotes

When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides. — Wayne Dyer

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely. — Gabriel Cousens

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth. — W. Bruce Cameron

Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round. — Sonam Kapoor

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets. — Mahatma Gandhi

Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience. — Merrill Markoe

Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find? — Lew Welch

The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these. — Scott Mandia

Looking through the telescope, one saw a circle of deep blue and the little round planet swimming in the field. It seemed such a little thing, so bright and small and still, faintly marked with transverse stripes, and slightly flattened from the perfect round. But so little it was, so silvery warm — H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

World Earth Day Quotes

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world. — Federico Garcia Lorca

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. - William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. — William Blake

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. - John Muir

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. — John Muir

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum. — Edward Abbey

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. — Mahatma Gandhi

Celebrate Earth Day every day. — John Denver

Beautiful Earth Quotes

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere — John Muir

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold. — Thomas Cole

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think. — Hildegard of Bingen

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin

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

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth. - Francis of Assisi

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth. — Francis of Assisi

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. — Rachel Carson

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. — Anton Chekhov

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. — Walt Whitman

Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you. — Eckhart Tolle

Save Earth Quotes

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller

I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to. — Leonard Peltier

You have one business on earth – to save souls. - John Wesley

You have one business on earth – to save souls. — John Wesley

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only. — Alexander Maclaren

In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. — J. I. Packer

Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save. — John Stott

Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. — William Rathje

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. — Chief Seattle

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. — Henrik Tikkanen

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More Planet Earth Quotes

In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns. — Giordano Bruno

There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth. — Khalid Abdul Muhammad

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? — George Bernard Shaw

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. — Neil Armstrong

The greatest gift you can give the planet on Earth Day is to go Plant-based. — Rich Roll

What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about? — Maurice Strong

The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device, a supercomputer or eye in the sky. It affects all life forms on this planet, beyond what you can currently grasp. In your history there are references to two moons around earth. — Barbara Marciniak

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change. — Rajendra K. Pachauri

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help. — Jared Diamond

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called Planet Earth. As we learn how we fit into the greater scheme of things, and begin to understand how the system works, we can plan ahead, we can use the resources responsibly, to show some respect for this inheritance that goes back 4.6 billion years. — Sylvia Earle

One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. — Michio Kaku

We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to. — Matt Damon

I'm dominant every night. I come in every night and get beat up. I never make a face when they try to flagrant or hack-a-Shaq me, because I'm not from this planet. Earthlings don't faze me. — Shaquille O'Neal

We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely. — Gerard K. O'Neill

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth. — Evo Morales

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