#earth

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#conscious #earth #given #highly #make

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

#business #come #earth #inherit #man

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? ↗

— Joel Barlow

#could #dearth #fear #how #left

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud. ↗

— John Barrow

#away #back #bringing #crest #down

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present. ↗

— David R. Brower

#brings #countries #earth #found #friends

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. ↗

— David R. Brower

#club #conservation #earth #founded #friends

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#earth #people #scarce #sir #without

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! ↗

— Anatole France

#art #chance #come #could #earth

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#earth #gold #men #mined #more

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long. ↗

— Rick James

#because #earth #going #i #long