Earth Quotes

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

~ Michelangelo

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

~ Sitting Bull

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

~ Neil Young

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

~ Plato

The view of Earth is spectacular.

~ Sally Ride

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

~ Henry Morton Stanley

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.

~ Craig Venter

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

~ Jacque Fresco

You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.

~ Seth Shostak

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

~ Harold Pinter

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

~ Charles Dickens

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

~ Chief Joseph

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

~ Joss Whedon

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

~ Benjamin Tucker

The sole equality on earth is death.

~ Philip James Bailey

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

~ Kate Chopin

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

~ Frank Sinatra

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

~ Billie Holiday

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

~ Jimmy Carl Black

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

~ Shakira

The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.

~ Norman Geisler

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

~ Rosalia De Castro

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

~ Guilherme Leal

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

~ Lafcadio Hearn

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

~ Henry David Thoreau

When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but this insults my intelligence.

~ Jasper Carrott

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

~ Annie Besant

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

~ Alex Haley

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

~ Alvar Aalto

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

~ Ben Nicholson