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“Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“The earth was initially very hot and without an atmosphere. In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.” George Orwell, 1984
“The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“So tell me the secret so I can take it back to Earth and save us all: How can a planet live at peace?” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves—or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Man needs but little earth for enjoyment, and still less for his final repose.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing...” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“It should never be forgotten that what we call 'catastrophes,' are, in relation to the earth, changes, the equivalents of which would be well represented by the development of a few pimples, or the scratch of a pin, on a man's head.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you, Displaying to you their eternal beauties, And still your eye is looking on the ground; Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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