9 quotes
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack ObamaNo other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.
Carl SaganHow inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. ClarkeOur posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Carl SaganThe boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I’ll probably always be interested in this planet – it’s my favorite.
Carl SaganWe are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen HawkingI put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil ArmstrongFor in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedyI believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
Stephen Hawking