#planet

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#corner #far #find #forgotten #galaxies

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#decided #get #helped #i #learn

I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#around #breed #come #create #everywhere

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#different #interesting #life #little #makes

I think once every person on the planet sees 'New Moon' and there's nobody left who hasn't see it, then I think they'll be able to go see 'Ninja.' ↗

— Joel Silver

#every #go #hasn #i #i think

My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#attention #been #career #clueless #family

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#available #back #being #came #could

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #escaping #fatal #final #greatest

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet. ↗

— Huston Smith

#better #depends #future #history #marching