Our Planet Quotes - Page 10

• It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way.

  Lierre Keith

  Responsibility, Warrior, Thinking

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• We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiring, Home, Responsibility

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• When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

  Bobby McLeod

  Healing, Sick, Healthy

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• We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Hopeful, Earth Day, Tasks

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Fighting, People, Growth

  "To End Poverty, Act on Climate" by Kathy Calvin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

  Alan Shepard

  Peace, Fighting, Space

  "What Does Moon Flight Mean Now" by Josh Getlin, The Seattle Times, p. A10, July 19, 1994.

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• Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it

  Yuri Gagarin

  People, World, Earth

  "Celebrate Space Travel's Past and Future", www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2002.

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• The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit

  Dave Hampton

  Future, Two, People

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• Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Coal, Climate Change

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• A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.

  George Carey

  Country, Children, Our World

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• Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Heart, Sea

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• We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

  Marston Bates

  Nature, Science, Thinking

  Horace Marden Albright, Marston Bates (1962). “The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship”

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• High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. Of all our planet's activities - geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind) - no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle.

  Richard Bangs

  Dream, Rain, Elephants

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• It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Bird, Musician, Hierarchy

  Claude Samuel, Olivier Messiaen (1976). “Conversations with Olivier Messiaen”, Stainer & Bell, Limited

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• Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Intelligent, Reality, Planets

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• People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Sea, People

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• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  Sally Ride

  Cutting, Views, Space

  "Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead". "All Things Considered", nhpr.org. July 23, 2012.

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• The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Together, Action, Individual

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Mar 03, 2013

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• If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Climate, Looks

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.316, Princeton University Press

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• Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.

  Tom Hanks

  Country, Impact, World

  Commencement Address at Vassar College, delivered 22 May 2005, Poughkeepsie, NY

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• I used to dream
  I used to glance beyond the stars
  Now I don't know where we are
  although I know we've drifted far
  What about yesterday
  What about the seas
  The heavens are falling down
  I can't even breathe
  What about the bleeding Earth
  Can't we feel its wounds
  What about nature's worth?
  It's our planet's womb.

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Stars, Fall

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• Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

  Jello Biafra

  Race, Environmental, Arms

  Address to the US Green Party, 2000.

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• My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.

  Franklin Chang Diaz

  Freedom, Future, Humanity

  "Rocket Scientist". Interview with Josh Seftel, www.pbs.org. May 1, 2009.

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• The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Success, Healing, Differences

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• If I, as a human being and artist represent anything in the world, it is my Jewish people, and therefore Israel is the only state on our planet which I want to represent with my art and all my public activities, no matter where I live.

  Evgeny Kissin

  Art, Israel, People

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