Quotes, aphorisms and phrases on earth, or concerning the planet in which we live, which represents the third planet in order of distance from the sun, the only one capable of making human life possible.
Quotes on earth
- There will come in future centuries, a time in which the ocean will break the chains of the universe, and an immense earth will appear, and Teti will reveal new worlds, and there will no longer exist on the terrestrial globe a last Tule! (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- Dear future generations: please accept our apologies. We were drunk with oil. (Kurt Vonnegut)
- The earth was created as a common good for all, rich and poor. (Sant'Ambrogio)
- Being in the world can be expensive, but a trip around the sun for free every year is included in the price! (Ashleigh Brilliant)
- Earth has existed for over a billion years. As for its end, wait and see. (Albert Einstein)
- Modernity has failed. A new humanism must be built otherwise the planet cannot be saved. (Albert Einstein)
- Whoever knew how to love the earth loved eternity. (Stefan Zeromski)
- Do not forget that the earth delights in feeling your bare feet and the winds intensely desire to play with your hair. (Kahlil Gibran)
- When you are with yours even if you are far away, you don't want your land. (Publilio Siro)
- Man has made Earth hell for animals. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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- What arises from the earth dissolves again into the earth, and things born in heaven fly to their native place. (Marco Aurelio)
- I wonder if there is a way to adequately describe the madness that makes us waste the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven. (James Lee Burke)
- The earth has music for those who listen. (William Shakespeare)
- If the world population continues to grow at the current rate in two thousand years, humanity will weigh more than the earth. (Isaac Asimov)
- The earth must first exist as a mental concept. Then you have to sing it. Only then can it be said that it exists. (Bruce Chatwin)
- Humanity is on the march, it has left the earth behind. (David Ehrenfeld)
- I beseech you, brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you of overwhelming hopes! Know it or not: they exercise the poison. They are despicators of life, dying and poisoned themselves, they have tired the earth: they can disappear! (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
- The sea supports the gaze, the earth our feet. (Marc Levy)
- There are no passengers on the Earth spacecraft. We are all part of the crew. (Marshall McLuhan)
- This was in the auspices: a little land, not too much, with a vegetable garden and a source of spring water near the house, plus a little wood. (Horace)
- It is useless for man to conquer the Moon if he ends up losing the Earth. (François Mauriac)
- Theoretically it is known that the earth turns, but in fact we do not notice it; the ground on which you walk seems motionless, and we live in peace. It is the same for Time, in life. (Marcel Proust)
- In the name of progress, man is transforming the world into a fetid and poisonous place (and this is "far from" a symbolic image). It is polluting the air, water, soil, animals ... and himself, to the point that it is legitimate to ask whether, in a hundred years, it will still be possible to live on earth. (Erich Fromm)
- The land was given to everyone, not just the rich. (Paul VI)
- Trees massacred. Houses arise. Faces, faces everywhere. Man extends. Man is earth cancer. (Emil Cioran)
- Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without being invited. For me, it's enough to marvel at its secrets. (Albert Einstein)
Aphorisms on earth
- Our economic overgrowth collides with the limits of the finiteness of the biosphere. The regenerative capacity of the earth is no longer able to follow the demand: man transforms resources into waste faster than nature is able to transform this waste into new resources. (Serge Latouche)
- If you are closer to the surface of the Earth, time passes more slowly due to the greater intensity of gravity. (Stephen Hawking)
- The planet has overcome far worse things than we have.It has overcome earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar winds, sunspots, magnetic storms, magnetic pole reversal, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteorites, world floods, anomalous waves, planetary fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages, and do we think any plastic bags and aluminum cans make any difference? " (George Carlin)
- Better to be poor on land than rich in the sea. (Diogenes The Cynic)
- The trees remain intact if you leave. But you don't, if they leave. (Markku Envall)
- On earth nothing is great except man; in man nothing is great except the mind. (William Rowan Hamilton)
- Under our feet the Earth holds its breath, while the bones of countless generations look at us and wait. (Isaac Marion)
- The earth is more noble than the world we built on it. (John Boynton Priestley)
- Earth provides enough resources to meet every man's needs, but not every man's greed. (Gandhi)
- The earth is immortal, which is why the mystery of creation is found in it. (Anwar Al Sadat)
- Silence dies, noise takes power everywhere. It is the only ecological disaster on earth that nobody talks about. (Alain Finkielkraut)
- You must never sell the land. It is the only thing left when the rest runs out. (Isabel Allende)
- The earth is over a million years old. Respect the elderly. (Deanna Anderson)
- Palestine is a land without a people; Jews are a landless people. (Israel Zangwill)
- Living is good. Knowing how to live is better. Surviving will undoubtedly be the problem of the men of "tomorrow". (Roger Molinier)
- Good morning stars of heaven, the Earth greets you! (Johnny Depp)
- When a man spends his life on the sea, afterwards he can no longer adapt to life on earth. (Samuel Johnson)
- The earth is more noble than the world we built on it. (John Priestley)
- Humans don't know what they have on Earth. Perhaps because most of them have not had the opportunity to leave it and then return to it. (James Russel Lowell)
- For the first time I realized my infinite smallness and the fact that our land was nothing more than a pebble on a beach where there were millions of pebbles. (Fred Uhlman)
- My belief has become increasingly profound that we cannot be enemies of each other, but that, as human beings, we must be allies together against the potential destruction of our home, the beautiful planet Earth. There is no time to lose. (Rosemary Linch)
- Heaven is under our feet, as well as on our heads. (Henry David Thoreau)
- The earth is the cradle of mankind, but a man cannot stay in the cradle forever. (Immanuel Velikovsky)
- One day I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not only of our respective nations. (Zoe Weil)
- You may have heard the music of man, but not the music of the earth. You may have heard the music of the earth, but not the music of the sky. (Chuang Tzu)
- We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. (LeeAnn Taylor)
Phrases on earth
- The older generation had more respect for their land than for science, but today it is science that guarantees growth and progress, so living anchored to tradition can lead to loneliness in the global era. (Shimon Peres)
- If all men threw themselves into the sea, the seas would immediately begin to clean themselves up. (MArkku Envall)
- Nothing will increase the chances of survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution towards a vegetarian diet. (Albert Einstein)
- I believe that having the land and not ruining it is the most beautiful form of art you could wish for. (Andy Warhol)
- As this frightening ocean surrounds the green earth, so in the soul of man there is an insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but surrounded by all the horrors of half-unknown life. (Herman Melville)
- Springs and landscapes have a serious flaw: they are free. Love for nature does not provide work for any factory. (Aldous Huxley)
- Man has made Earth hell for animals. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- The earth has a skin, and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called "man". (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- The whole earth is open to the wise, because the whole world is home to a beautiful soul. (Democritus)
- The miracle is not to walk on the water, but to walk on the green earth in the present moment and to appreciate the beauty and peace that are available now. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
- It is not the new continents that are needed on earth, but the new men! (Jules Verne)
- Until now man has been against Nature; from now on it will be against one's nature. (Dennis Gabor)
- Earth does not share our prejudice towards plastic.Plastic comes from Earth. (George Carlin)
- The land is a beautiful place and it is worth fighting for. (Ernest Hemingway)
- For the first time I realized my infinite smallness and the fact that our land was nothing more than a pebble on a beach where there were millions of pebbles. (Fred Uhlman)
- The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- This is why I much prefer autumn to spring, because in autumn you look at the sky. In spring the land. (Soren Kierkegaard)
- Collect a flower on Earth and you will move the most distant star. (Paul Dirac)
- It's all the fault of the Moon, when it gets too close to Earth it drives everyone crazy. (William Shakespeare)
- Teach your children everything we have taught our parents: that the Earth is the mother of all. Everything that happens on Earth also happens to its children. Spitting on Earth is spitting on yourself. The Earth does not belong to man, it is the man who belongs to Earth. Everything is connected, like the blood that unites a family. What happens to Earth also happens to the children of Earth. (David Servan-Schreiber)
- The miracle is not to walk on the water, but to walk on the green earth in the present moment and to appreciate the beauty and peace that are available now. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
- To hurt the earth is to hurt yourself, and if others hurt the earth, they hurt you. (Bruce Chatwin)
- Confining our attention to earthly matters would mean limiting the human spirit. (Stephen Hawking)
- I have to leave a ticket to my nephew: the request for forgiveness for not leaving him a better world than he is. (Andrea Zanzotto)
- A better planet is a dream that begins to come true when each of us decides to improve himself. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Man is the craziest species: he venerates an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Without realizing that the Nature that is destroying is that God that is venerating. (Hubert Reeves)
