Planets Quotes - Page 7

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  Iris Murdoch

  People, Literature, Wavelength

  Iris Murdoch (2010). “The Message To The Planet”, p.536, Random House

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• Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

  Billy Corgan

  Saturn, Return, Position

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

  Christopher Dodd

  Children, Stewardship, States

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• A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

  Christopher Wren

  Clever, Future, Eye

  "If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens-- where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life". Book by Stephen Webb, p. 150, quoting "Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College", 2002.

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• Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

  Victoria Principal

  Healthy, Environmental, Environment

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• I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

  Patrick Stewart

  Civilization, Arrogance, May

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

  Story Musgrave

  Communication, Numbers, Priorities

  Academy of Archievment interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

  Alexander Herzen

  Generations, Development, Introducing

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• The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.

  Eban Goodstein

  Air, Breaking Down, Starting

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• Give up meat to save the planet.

  Nicholas Stern

  Giving Up, Meat, Climate Change

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• Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.

  Nhat Hanh

  Technology, People, Enough

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Order, Organization, Climate

  "Will Russia's Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts?". content.time.com. August 2, 2010.

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• You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.

  John Replogle

  Sick, Healthy, Healthy Life

  "How Seventh Generation Made Sustainable Cleaning Products Mainstream". Interview with Meghan French Dunbar, consciouscompanymedia.com. July 4, 2015.

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• Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Hammocks, Way

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

  Alan Stern

  Class, Earth, Pluto

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• If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

  Neal Asher

  Technology, People, Dying

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• Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.

  Gwendolyn MacEwen

  Death, Lying, Eye

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• We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

  Janet Kauffman

  Land, Ideas, Nuclear

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• It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Depressing, Rights, People

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• Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."

  Marianne Williamson

  Unconditional Love, Doors, Keys

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 15, 2011

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• In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Order, People, Would Be

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• It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

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• We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Views, Needs

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• The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Commitment, Moon, Organization

  "Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars". Interview with Rebecca Boyle, www.popsci.com. May 7, 2013.

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