Best Planets Quotes

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

The past is another planet.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation – a force for construction and destruction.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.

It’s probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

That there are billions of people over 60kg weight on this planet is recklessness.

The world doesn’t belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet–it doesn’t belong to us. We got confused about that, now it’s time to set the record straight

We have to make our economy work for everyone – not just those at the top – protecting our country and protecting our planet.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it’s hard; it’s painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I’m not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible.

I believe it’s our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it’s also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don’t talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it’s the superstructure of human society?

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the finite planet frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.

I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It’s ridiculous!

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

No matter where I am on this planet, I am always safe.

In every person’s life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You’re faced with yourself. There’s no running away.

It’s so off the charts and off anybody’s radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who’s been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection … no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.

Electricity comes from other planets.

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn’t do as a child: I want to take back the planet’s future.

We only get one planet.