Earth Quotes

This is not just our world.

~ Mario Stinger

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

~ Ann Wroe

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

Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

~ Charles Eisenstein

lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, the peaks and valleys of geography fading to become strokes of a paintbrush on a divine sphere.

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

~ Carl Sagan

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

~ Carl Sagan

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,—then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

~ Johannes Kepler

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.

~ Joanna Russ

Try as you might, you'll never be able to please an environmentalist. You can stop using coal to heat your house, you can stop throwing out bottles and cans, you can have every factory in Canada shut down and you can buy only organic gluten-free non-GMO food, you can give up your favorite station wagon for a weird electric hybrid, you can stop developing film and buy a never-ending cycle of digital cameras, you can give up your job at a refinery or mill, and they'll still get after you for not enjoying yourself while doing so.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm ready for a change.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.

~ Jenny Trout

Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

~ Paulo Coelho

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

~ James Lee Burke

Anything or everything treated as a 'Problem' on planet earth, falls under the clause of mankind's Self' Ignorance , Ego & Immaturity.

~ Vishal Chipkar

The syrup of lilies hangs thick and sweet in the air, its cloying scent the traditional mask of death and rebirth: ashes and incense, rain and dirt, and something like rosin. It's the scent Hector associates with God. The scent of heavenly things.

~ Kimberly Morgan

Be an embodiment of the petition, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who live a long life without realising their spiritual goals are as similar to the hygienic zombies walking on earth.

~ Vishal Chipkar

Pairs are made in HeavenPromises are take on Earth...

~ Shonali Dey

Pairs are made in HeavenPromises are taken on Earth...

~ Shonali Dey

We can make our earth a heaven or a hell based on the choices that we make.

~ Kate Mcgahan

The Bird of Paradise, it seemed, had beckoned us on and led us in, to stand here in this place high in the land of volcanoes. It was here in Bali, after returning from the Toraja Star Children, that I first recognized what they meant by us all being born half of heaven and half of earth. And after the mounted warsports of Sumba it was in Balinese ritual that I saw with new eyes the battle for balance between light and darkness. And after Borneo, returning to the sacred Banyan tree and its simian custodians, I had felt that all great trees, what’s left of them, do indeed link heaven and earth in a single forest of life.

~ Lawrence Blair

Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.

~ Clifford A. Pickover

I lack nothing, I tell you!”“Nothing?” I asked. “Not even heaven?”He lowered his head and was silent. But after a moment:“Heaven is too high for me. The earth is good, exceptionally good–and near me!”“Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.

~ Homer

We tried to make a heaven of earth,But the earth is just a stage, a school,Where we wear our masks and play our rolesAnd teach each other how to love.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Life is a dance between heaven and earth, the ebb and flow of life.

~ Maurice Spees

When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.

~ Kris Vallotton

If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

~ Stanisław Jerzy Lec

We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.

~ Robert Bly

When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.

~ Felix Wantang

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven

~ Thiruvalluvar

We are chained to the earth by a chain of gold, but we dare not sever it; for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

~ Ciel Phantomhive

This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe.

~ Rick Yancey

If the Kingdom is being advanced at any level it represents increase

~ Blake Higginbotham

Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestesslooks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with Heaven Earth and Time.

~ Daniel Peter Buckley