Proverbs and quotes about earth.
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A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop it would diversify its crops to suit the earth.
Verlyn KlinkenborgA root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.
Hal BorlandAgriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.
Paul ChatfieldAll the different life forms that share our planet are our relatives.
Paul NurseSource: What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar HammersteinAnd a locust unto Mahomet said: 'We are the army of the great God; we produce ninety-nine eggs; if the hundred were completed, we should consume the whole earth and all that is in it.'
(unknown author)Bare feet on the grass comfort the spirit and connect the body to the earth all at once!
Maximillian DegenerezBugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.
T. EisnerCultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.
Thomas JeffersonDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar WildeEarth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
Stephen HawkingEarth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
Mahatma GandhiGod created the earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands.
René DescartesI came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.
Rabindranath TagoreIf you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
Sylvia EarleIf you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William JerroldIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
BibleSource: Genesis
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.
BibleSource: Mark 4:31
Keep the blue planet green.
(unknown author)Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
Thomas JeffersonLet's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
The Rolling StonesLet's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
Source: Salt of the Earth Lyrics
Let's save Planet A.
(unknown author)Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
Stephen HawkingLift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
BibleSource: Isaiah 51:6
Men make the earth black from green leaves.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage LandorOf the entire terrestrial vertebrate biomass on earth, wild animals constitute only about three percent, humans one-quarter, and livestock almost three-quarters!
Frans de WaalOnce the mushroom has sprouted from the earth, there is no turning back.
Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire.
Greta ThunbergOur meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Uri Geller