1. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.-Native American Proverb
2. The earth is what we all have in common.-Wendell Berry
3. Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.-Rachel Carson
4. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.-Mahatma Gandhi
5. The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.-Friedrich Nietzsche
6. There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.-Marshall McLuhan
7. Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values . God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.-Charles A. Lindbergh
8. The best investment on earth is earth.-Louis J. Glickman
9. Everything costs and costs the earth.-Maya Angelou
10. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.-Baha’U’Llah
11. Touch the earth, feel the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.-Henry Beston
12. The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.-Daniel Dennett
13. The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.-Leo Tolstoy
14. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
15. The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.-Daniel Webster
16. … Do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.-Dave Foreman
17. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.-Carl Sagan
18. The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.-Marlee Matlin
19. If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.-Joseph Wood Krutch
20. The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.-Thomas Jefferson
21. Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.-Max Lucado
22. The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.-Pope John Paul II
23. Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home-S.G. Rainbolt
24. The threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us.-Margaret Atwood
25. The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.-Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
26. For the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof.-Bible
27. If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.-Douglas Jerrold
28. The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.-Hannah Arendt
29. …the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.-Wendell Berry