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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
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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
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The best investment on earth is earth.
Louis J. Glickman
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Everything costs and costs the earth.
Maya Angelou
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The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
Baha'U'Llah
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Touch the earth, feel the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
Henry Beston
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
Daniel Dennett
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The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
Leo Tolstoy
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Daniel Webster
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... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.
Dave Foreman
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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
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The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
Marlee Matlin
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson
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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Max Lucado
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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
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Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home
S.G. Rainbolt
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The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
Margaret Atwood
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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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For the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.
Bible
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If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
Hannah Arendt
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...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
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Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
Henry Beston
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Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
Ron Garan
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You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.
Henry David Thoreau
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ON EARTH, WE STILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL ATMOSPHERE THAT PRECISELY MAINTAINS A THERMALLY DRIVEN CLIMATIC SYSTEM THAT SHELTERS, SHIELDS AND SUSTAINS OUR NATURAL TREASURES.
Jay Inslee
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The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
Robert Swan
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A nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is absurd to think that we can bring life on a dead planet like Mars, if we cannot sustain it on a planet steaming with life like EARTH!
unknown
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It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.
Alan Stern
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Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.
Jerry Smith
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We are living on the planet as if we have another one to go to.
Terry Swearingen
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke
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This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
Paul Tsongas
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The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.
Abdul Kalam
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In every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth.
Rachel Carson
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I am the Earth. You are the Earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers.
Ymber Delecto
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What befalls the Earth, befalls all the sons and daugter's of the Earth.
unknown
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
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Orbiting earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!
Yuri Gagarin
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The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. Cummings
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Mars is too cold, Venus is too hot, earth is just right.
Andrew Ingersoll
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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
Jane Goodall


