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"If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky."
"On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood."
"In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet."
"Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things"
"Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration."
"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."
"Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe."
"How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!"
"The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do."
"The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth."
"Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth"
"A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods"
"wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
"The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first."
"If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go"
"We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged."
"We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?"
"A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet."
"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth."
"Who will speak for Planet Earth?"
