Planets Quotes - Page 27

• Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

  April Gornik

  Funny Relationship, Use, Care

  "Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual, it somehow produced the freest hockey on the planet. These guys, when they got on the ice, it was like watching jazz. They could do anything. I find that a paradox. It's interesting because I think the North American style was a lot less free. It was not encouraged to be creative.

  Gabe Polsky

  Hockey, Thinking, Ice

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• You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

  Andy Summers

  Want, Make Sense

  Source: collider.com

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• There is no nation on the planet better able to adapt to this change than our nation. We must able to work collaboratively with others. We must anticipate these threats before they happen. This is the new sort of challenge, the new sort of threat that does, in fact, require new thinking, fresh approaches and new leadership.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Challenges, Doe

  Source: time.com

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• As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.

  Martin O'Malley

  Military, Roots, Appreciate

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

  Barry Commoner

  Cooperatives

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• I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fall, Kids, Hands

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

  Billy Graham

  Mean, Our World, Essence

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.298, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Information, Satisfaction

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Emotional, Civilization

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

  Charles Kuralt

  Earthquakes, Unfinished, Walks

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• Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, People, Tools

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• i'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself.  i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff--in a good way.  i'm very disciplined.  like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?".  until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts.

  Jim Carrey

  Light, Nuts, Balls

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• Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

  Frank Zappa

  Air, Function, Realms

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.

  Huston Smith

  Responsibility, Yield, People

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• There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Mammals, Species, Beetles

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• Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Long, Way, Logic

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• We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

  Kofi Annan

  Hardest Hit, Needs, Financial

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• The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Best Things, Can Do

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• Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Orange Trees, Land, Earth

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• To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sun, Multiple, Quotations

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• And we are beginning to hear the groaning from our tortured planet. We are at a point when we must realize that if we want to continue to call this planet our home, we need to change - not the planet, but ourselves.

  Masaru Emoto

  Home, Needs, Want

  Masaru Emoto (2010). “The Secret Life of Water”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

  Tess Gallagher

  Hug, Buttons, Connections

  Tess Gallagher (1984). “Willingly: Poems”

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• The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

  Dave Matthews

  Ideas, Important, Existence

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• What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.

  Richard Lindzen

  Powerful, Special, World

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