-Kuvempu [Attributed]
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1064 – “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
(more…)1016 – “Treat the Earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
-American Proverb [See Source Notes for Attribution]
(more…)993 – “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the Earth, then I ask myself the same question.”
-anonymous
(more…)979 – David W Orr on what Earth needs
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set.”
-David W Orr
(more…)911 – “When you’re finally up at the Moon looking back on Earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you’re going to get a concepts that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can’t we learn to live together like decent people?”
-Frank Borman [Unreliable Source]
(more…)820 – “The Earth has its music for those who will listen”
802 – “Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
–C S Lewis [See Link for Better Context]
772 – A Quote About Life and a Cosmic Perspective
“You are currently on a 4.5 billion year old spaceship. A self sufficient, organic, complex spaceship. You are orbiting a power source that is a million times large than your ship. There are 200 billion more power sources, possibly with ships like yours, in your group. There are 40 more groups in your particular neighborhood. Your neighborhood is moving at 2 million miles per hour to an object that is 150 million light years away. Welcome to life. It’s more exciting when you think on a larger scale.”
–anonymous
739 – “We have a genetic kinship with all life on Earth, an atomic kinship to all matter in the cosmos. So when I look at the Universe, I feel large, because I remind myself that not only are we living in this Universe, the Universe is living within us.”
–Neil deGrasse Tyson
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