Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
—Christian Nestell Bovee
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
—Sidney Sheldon
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
—Arthur C. Clarke
Earth laughs in flowers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.
—Xenophanes
I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.
—Ed Begley Jr.
If we think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, we see that we are the earth; we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth.
—Joseph Campbell
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the Koran, Allah asks, "The heaven and the earth and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?" It's a good question. What do we think of the created universe, spanning an unthinkable void with an unthinkable profusion of forms?… If the giant water bug was not made in jest, was it then made in earnest?
—Annie Dillard
The view of Earth is spectacular.
—Sally Ride
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.
—Edward Abbey
You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
—Samuel Beckett
This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.
—Donald Cargill
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
—Konstantin Tsiolkovsky