Quotes: Earth

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth’s surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

It’s my job, it’s what I do, it’s what I’m on earth to do and it’s who I am.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

Our Father which art in heaven – Stay there – And we will stay on earth – Which is sometimes so pretty.