Earth - Quotes
It`s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity`s highest callings.
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckiest of the lucky, one out of a thousand or even a million. So however unlucky you may be on some occasion today, your presence on the planet testifies to the role luck has played in your past.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, [...] than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?
The friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts.
For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as much as I do.
Lower your expectations of earth. This is not heaven, so don`t expect it to be.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within fifty years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish.