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

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

—Arthur C. Clarke

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

—Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

—Sidney Sheldon

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

I had assumed that the earth, the spirit of the earth, noticed exceptions—those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

—Alice Walker

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

—Peter Benchley

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

—Zhuangzi