It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.
Maurice Strong

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Bell Hooks

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Max Lucado

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
Toni Morrison

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
Mortimer Adler

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
John Updike

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Malcolm Muggeridge

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
Ernest Shackleton

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara de Angelis

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
Hannah Arendt

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
Paul Cezanne