Earth Quotes

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."

Douglas William Jerrold

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility."

Wendell Berry

"You don't see any borders between countries from space. That's man-made, and one experiences it only when you return to Earth."

Sunita Williams

"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

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

Marshall McLuhan

"We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. We need to explore deep within more than without."

Sonam Wangchuk

"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."

Norman Cousins

"You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb."

Jim Lovell

"The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine."

James Irwin

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

Nicolaus Copernicus

"The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth."

Mae Jemison

"Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is."

Valentina Tereshkova

"I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet."

Sally Ride

"The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. None of the other planets even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet."

Chris Hadfield

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn't come with it."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home."

David Suzuki

"The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet – it's my favorite."

Carl Sagan

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

"We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA."

James Lovelock

"Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it."

Sylvia Earle

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"

William S. Burroughs

"I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views."

Duane G. Carey