Top 1200 Destroying The Earth Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.

Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.

We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.

I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for it, so that it can be regarded as one of the wandering stars. For the fact that it is not the centre of all revolutions is made clear by the apparent irregular motion of the wandering stars, and their variable distances from the Earth, which cannot be understood in a circle having the same centre as the Earth.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?

The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.

Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.