Earth Quotes

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.

~ Norman Borlaug

Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.

~ Jane Poynter

The Moon stabilizes Earth's obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees - and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon, it might be much worse.

~ Seth Shostak

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

~ Maurice Strong

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

~ Peter Benchley

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

~ Jay Inslee

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

~ John Lithgow

Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles suggests that life could potentially take hold on worlds other than our own.

~ Nick Sagan

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

~ David O. Mckay

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

~ Salvatore Quasimodo

We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

~ Jimmy Carter

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

~ Marya Mannes

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

~ Maurice Strong

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

~ Nursultan Nazarbayev

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

~ Jules Verne

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

~ Ami Ayalon