Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
The earth is what we all have in common.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.
For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.
This beautiful Earth that we have, this gift that the Universe has given us is precious beyond measure, precious beyond imagination, and we are part of it and we must treat it with Love, respect, and reverence.
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