Best Earth Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish. We would need no personal names of the old sort in the sidereal future, nothing being fixed. We would be designated by other nouns. Days and nights would belong to the museums. The earth a memorial park, a merry-go-round cemetery. The seas powdering our bones like quartz, making sand, grinding our peace for us by the aeon. Well, that would be good - a melancholy good.”

“Ah earth you old extinguisher.”

“The earth was a grave: our life was lent to it by its elements and had to be returned: a time came when the simple elements seemed to long for release from the complicated forms of life, when every element of every cell said, "Enough!" The planet was our mother and our burial ground. No wonder the human spirit wished to leave. Leave this prolific belly. Leave also this great tomb. Passion for the infinite caused by the terror, by timor mortis, needed material appeasement.”

“She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more”

“The world was becoming a very puzzling place for me. I didn’t understand why bad people were allowed to tell good people what to do. What kind of world would allow that to happen?”

“I must admit that if there was ever going to be a woman to take my mind and heart off of Annette, it would have been Aideen.”

“No,” said the doctor. “It’s something I’ve never seen before. Something I don’t think anyone has seen before.””

“How I wish I was like the water,”

“We theorize that if these disruptions continue to happen, eventually the separate realities will begin to compete with our primary reality for dominance, and there will end up being no safe reality to live in.”

“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”

“Success will take you through a series of tests. If you pass them, you will succeed here on earth.”

“Victory on earth lies in the hand of our Father, who art in Heaven.”

“When you walk the land with respect, it remembers you. Not with words, but with echoes that guide you back when you’re lost.”

“The Earth doesn’t need saving. It needs remembering. We forgot we were part of it, not apart from it.”

“The Earth belongs to no one; it is shared by all who have lived, all who live, and all who will ever live, along with the non-living elements that sustain us. It is a collective inheritance.”

“No aprendas nada, y el próximo mundo será igual que éste, con las mismas limitaciones y pesos de plomo que superar”

“Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.”

“The forest rose like a dream”

“And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.”

“Song of myself”

“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;”

“I'm bereft of poetry”

“May I exchange T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland”

“WINTER'S GHOST:”

“Our love was born”

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in”

“HEARTWORK”

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,”

“I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,”

“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”