"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair"
— Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)

"The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble."
— Ellen DeGeneres

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
— John Muir

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
— Henry David Thoreau

"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."
— Chief Seattle (Chief Seattle's Speech)

""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 (Karol Wojtyła)

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity..."
— John Muir

"Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

"Geeks shall inherit the earth."
— Co-founder of Apple, Inc.

"I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.Psalm 73"
— Various (The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments in the King James Version Translated Out of the Original Tongues)

"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

"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

"When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed and, as it were, emasculated country... Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature I am conversing with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all it's warriors...I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best of the stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth."
— Henry David Thoreau (The Journals of Henry David Thoreau: 1837-1861)

"One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees..."
— Leo Tolstoy

"The danger is not what Nature will do to man, but what Man will do to nature."
— Old Mother Nature

""We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No one reminds us of this better than our dogs. Perhaps the human condition will always include attempts to remind ourselves that we are separate from the rest of the natural world. We are different from other animals; it's undeniably true. But while acknowledging that, we must acknowledge another truth, the truth that we are also the same. That is what dogs and their emotions give us-- a connection. A connection to life on earth, to all that binds and cradles us, lest we begin to feel too alone. Dogs are our bridge-- our connection wo who we really are, and most tellingly, who we want to be. When we call them home to us, it'as as if we are calling for home itself. And that'll do, dogs. That'll do.""
— Patricia B. McConnell (For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend)

"The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see."
— Edward Abbey

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. "
— Rachel Carson (The Sense of Wonder)

""Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." -Richard David Bach
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— Richard Bach

"With extinguished beams the moon joined with the earth and there was no hand to pluck a chord from these dead strings, the earth opened her gaping womb but there was no light to fructify her… terrified stars were hanging in the airless infinity, hanging motionless like cold brass globes, and the sun, black as coal, expired, consumed by its own conflagration."
— Stanislaus Przybyszewski

"The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can. And that's what makes it so damn beautiful." - Roy Mustang"
— Sho Aikawa

"Only in a place like this do earth and sky come together in such a way that they bridge into one, and in such a place a person could put up her arms and find herself in heaven."
— Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)

"This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?"
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water"
— Karl Von Frisch (Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language)

"Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings.
Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.
‘My Word,’ said Bouvard, ‘look at those worlds disappearing.’
Pecuchet replied: ‘If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.’
‘What is the point of it all?’
‘Perhaps there isn’t a point.’
‘Yet…’ and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.”"
— Gustave Flaubert (Bouvard And Pecuchet)

"We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers."
— George Macaulay Trevelyan

"How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? "
— Paulo Coelho The Winner Stands Alone

"In most people's minds, fossils and Evolution go hand in hand. In reality, fossils are a great embarrassment to Evolutionary theory and offer strong support for the concept of Creation. If Evolution were true, we should find literally millions of fossils that show how one kind of life slowly and gradually changed to another kind of life. But missing links are the trade secret, in a sense, of paleontology. The point is, the links are still missing. What we really find are gaps that sharpen up the boundaries between kinds. It's those gaps which provide us with the evidence of Creation of separate kinds. As a matter of fact, there are gaps between each of the major kinds of plants and animals. Transition forms are missing by the millions. What we do find are separate and complex kinds, pointing to Creation."
— Gary Parker

"Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them."
— David Kitts

"“Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth”

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— Rolf Peterson, professor of Ecology

"Le regard analytique et le regard intuitif sur la vie ne peuvent s'harmoniser dans un même être que dans la mesure où le premier est subordonné au second. C'est du second, et notamment du sentiment de beauté et de compassion qu'il enferme, que découle le sens de la totalité de même que celui des équilibres et de la limite. Le regard intuitif est la condition de la sagesse sans laquelle le regard analytique peut conduire à des excès suicidaires. L'analyse des phénomènes donne de la puissance sur eux, elle permet de dominer la nature, mais elle n'enferme aucune indication quant aux limites qu'il convient d'assigner à cette puissance."
— James Lovelock

"Si l'organisme vivant est un system hiérarchisé dont le niveau d'organisation est au-dessus du niveau chimique, il est alors évident qu'il doit être étudié à tous les niveaux et qu'une recherche limitée à l'un d'entre eux (niveaux chimique par exemple) ne peut remplacer celle effectuée aux niveau supérieurs."
— J. H. Woodger

"The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary."
— E.L. Konigsburg (The View from Saturday)

"And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new. "
— Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)

"This quote was written by the Forth Teacher "Samuel"

"You are responsible for everything that you give out to others in your Earth Life that is Negative. If personal responsibility were taught at a Young Age maybe Souls would think twice before they act. The Greatest Reward you can ever receive is when you have cleared your slate for Good."
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— Samuel