Earth quotations

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◆ What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

- Chris d'Lacey99

◆ 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 II99

◆ The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

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

- Rachel Carson99

◆ The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

- Al-Ma?arri99

◆ ...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 Berry99

◆ Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

- Jacques-Yves Cousteau99

◆ It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

- Rainer Maria Rilke99

◆ What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

- Neil deGrasse Tyson99

◆ Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

- Terence McKenna99

◆ I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

- Pearl S. Buck99

◆ 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 Armstrong99

◆ Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

- Gary Snyder99

◆ The earth is like a beautiful bride, who needs no man-made jewels to heighten her loveliness.

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