Beautiful Earth Quotes:

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.

- Alexey Leonov

source: "How Camera Drones are Changing Our World (and us)" by Claudine Chicheportiche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.

topic: Believe, Home, Light, Light Blue, Earth And Sky

To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.

- Roberta Bondar

topic: Attitude, Reality, Space, Earth And Sky, Neurologists

Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.

- Loren Acton

topic: Life, Drama, Moving, Blackness, Our Planet Earth

For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

- Ulf Merbold

topic: Ocean, Dark, Light, Light Blue, Dark Blue

The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.

- Roger B. Chaffee

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

topic: Beautiful, Space, Giving, Cleaners, Beautiful Earth

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Nature, Talkative, Wild Animal

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Beach, Lakes And Rivers, This Too Shall Pass

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

- Gaylord Nelson

source: Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin Press

topic: Needs, Our Society, Environment, Inspirational Earth, Beautiful Earth

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Sunset, Islands, Sea, Sunrise And Sunset, Gloaming

The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

- Gaylord Nelson

source: Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.157, Univ of Wisconsin Press

topic: Jobs, Ocean, Rivers, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

Forests are the lungs of our land......

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Land, Forests, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

- Thomas Fuller

source: "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

topic: Ocean, Sea, Water, Sound Of Water, Take Nothing For Granted

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

- George Carlin

topic: Beautiful, Song, Nature, Asphalt, Water Pollution

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

- Yang Liwei

topic: Beautiful, Wall, Space, My Space, Looking Beautiful

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Nature, Men, Laughing, Healthy Living, Inspirational Earth

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

source: Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

topic: Earth, Guests, Forgotten, Inspirational Environmental, Wild Creatures

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

- Ross Perot

topic: Dirty, Men, Rivers, Inspirational Environmental, Natural Environment

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

- John Keats

topic: Inspirational, Life, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thank You, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

- John Muir

topic: Nature, I Hate You, Heart, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

- David Attenborough

source: "The Sum of You: Teach Yourself" by Alan Graham, Hachette UK, (p. 13), October 29, 2010.

topic: Nature, Earth Day, Understanding, Inspirational Earth, World Earth Day

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

- James Irwin

source: "Astronomically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Astronomy and Physics" by C.C. Gaither and Alma E Cavazos-Gaither, (p. 262), 2003.

topic: Beautiful, Christmas, Space, Blackness, Beautiful Earth

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

- David Attenborough

topic: Beauty, Nature, Earth Day, World Earth Day, Beautiful Earth

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

- John Muir

topic: Autumn, Environmental, Care, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

- Hal Borland

topic: Nature, Squirrels, Tree, Spring Flowers, World Earth Day

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

- John James Audubon

topic: Nature, Children, Father, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

- Robert Orben

source: "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

topic: Fun, Air, Environment, Inspirational Earth, Water Pollution

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Running, Nature, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

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

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

topic: Eye, Space, Blue, Peas, Our Planet Earth

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

- Lord Byron

source: 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

topic: Lonely, Nature, Travel, Man And Nature, Beautiful Nature

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Nature, Philosophical, Beautiful Nature, Marvelous Things

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Fun, Oil, Earth Day, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

- Chief Seattle

topic: Life, Lonely, Nature, Indian, Inspirational Earth

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

topic: Motivational, Nature, Past, Social Environment, Inspirational Earth

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Inspiring, Peace, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

source: 'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Beautiful Nature, Spirit Of Life

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

- William Blake

topic: Hands, Infinity, Palms, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.

- William C. McCool

topic: Imagination, Earth, Feels, Earth And Sky, Beautiful Earth

Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

- Alfred Worden

topic: Home, Moon, Looks, Earth And Sky, Beautiful Earth

We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

- William Anders

source: "The mysteries of sleepwalking and night fears are not solved", www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

topic: Moon, Important, Earth, Earth And Sky, Beautiful Earth

I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape . . . . It makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away it really is a small planet.

- Frank Borman

source: "And You Think You've Got Problems!" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2016.

topic: Distance, Thinking, Rising, Our Planet Earth, Overwhelming Emotions

The earth has music for those who listen.

- George Santayana

topic: Music, Encouragement, Art, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Nature, Reflection, Social Environment, Green World

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

- John Ruskin

topic: Science, Painting, Infinite, Infinite Beauty, Nature Beauty

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

- Chief Seattle

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Peace, Indian, Indian Wisdom

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths