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15 Quotes That Will Make You Appreciate Earth

In honor of Earth Day.

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15 Quotes That Will Make You Appreciate Earth
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”


Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters

2. “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

3. "Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

4. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

5. "Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”


Terence McKenna

6. "What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.”

Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Within

7. "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

8. "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

Neil Armstrong

9. "We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

David Brower

10. "Our love was born
outside the walls,
in the wind,
in the night,
in the earth,
and that's why the clay and the flower,
the mud and the roots
know your name.”

Pablo Neruda

11. "Mapmaker,mapmaker
make me a map

one to one scale,
without a single gap.

Map every rock,
every thought, every tree

and erase all the territory.”


Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

12. "I see Earth! It is so beautiful.”

Yuri Gagarin

13. "Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.”

Amit Ray

14. "Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.”

Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

15. "We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.”

Steven M. Greer

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