Quotes on Our Planet Earth

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?