planet

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
6ef5075	Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.	planet jurassic-park	Michael Crichton
7cedbdd	The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.	relationships inspiration motivation happiness planet sharing gardening eating food	Michael Pollan
f65625e	How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?	inspirational planet environment	Paulo Coelho
c805893	This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.	unhappiness sadness unhappy planet sad	Douglas Adams
85de880	The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.	earth world truth lousy manufactured planet kurt-vonnegut destruction	Kurt Vonnegut
693987f	The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.	money poetry inspirational moon-palace peom planet smelling food	Paul Auster
72823b5	And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.	science lem planet	Stanisław Lem
e521f95	"All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?" Arthur shrugged in a so-so sort of way. "I don't know," he said, taking a pull of beer. "Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?" Ford gave up. It really wasn't worth bothering at the moment, what with the world being about to end." --	alien aliens-abduct arthur-dent betelgeuse dent douglas douglas-adams ford ford-prefect world-ending planet arthur pub prefect	Douglas Adams
fa7afeb	It's so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that 'the world' is mundanely 'a planet.' The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.	world science planet	Douglas Coupland
4d7f0fd	Charles Wallace and the unicorn moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far glazy, and he realized that the galaxy itself was part of a mighty orchestra, and each star and planet within the galaxy added its own instrument to the music of the spheres. As long as the ancient harmonies were sung, the universe would not entirely lose its joy.	universe stars joy music musical-instrument orchestra planet singing harmony	Madeleine L'Engle
8cd80a3	And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.	earth world solar-system planet galaxy	Robert Ludlum
8a641a3	Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.	explosion mass-murder terrorists planet plague space-exploration	James S.A. Corey
86539fc	The planet is finished with us, at this point -	science truth planet	Zadie Smith
ac1a4db	I've heard that when you're in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you're hyper-aware of what's happening around you. As the shuttle careens toward the earth, the exact opposite is true for me. Everything silences, even the screams and shouts from the people on the other side of the metal door, the crashes that I pray aren't bodies, the hissing of rockets, Elder's cursing, my pounding heartbeat. I feel nothing--not the seat belt biting into my flesh, not my clenching jaw, nothing. My whole body is numb. Scent and taste disappear. The only thing about my body that works is my eyes,and they are filled with the image before them. The ground seems to leap up at us as we hurtle toward it. Through the blurry image of the world below us, I see the outline of land--a continent. And at once, my heart lurches with the desire to know this world, to make it our home. My eyes drink up the image of the planet--and my stomach sinks with the knowledge that this is a coastline I've never seen before. I could spin a globe of Earth around and still be able to recognize the way Spain and Portugal reach into the Atlantic, the curve of the Gulf of Mexico, the pointy end of India. But this continent--it dips and curves in ways I don't recognize, swirls into an unknown sea, creating peninsulas in shapes I do not know, scattering out islands in a pattern I cannot connect. And it's not until I see this that I realize: this world may one day become our home,but it will never be the home I left behind.	earth travel discovery life godspeed elder amy-martin beth-revis shades-of-earth shuttle planet mission crash home journey	Beth Revis
35ac4a9	"Q: How do you fall in love?	love jump planet	Jeanette Winterson
e980ccc	And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.	world truth centauri-earth new-place amy-martin atu-series shades-of-earth planet home	Beth Revis
4253241	Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the world. He had escaped from the old world and he hated to feel that he was being drawn back to share a common destiny with the rest of mankind.	world planet isolationism americans	H.G. Wells
abddbe9	Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?	man woman love helium planet	Edgar Rice Burroughs
cc4dccf	" ," Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. "Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real war has always been ahead of them, unseen, unimagined. Enemies who can't be killed by normal weapons, who have their base in an alternate universe, who are interested only in slaughtering every living being on the face of the planet."	war death planet demons	Darren Shan
f8890fa	But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.	world planet health	Elizabeth Gilbert

6ef5075

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

planet jurassic-park

Michael Crichton

7cedbdd

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

relationships inspiration motivation happiness planet sharing gardening eating food

Michael Pollan

f65625e

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?

inspirational planet environment

Paulo Coelho

c805893

This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

unhappiness sadness unhappy planet sad

Douglas Adams

85de880

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

earth world truth lousy manufactured planet kurt-vonnegut destruction

Kurt Vonnegut

693987f

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

money poetry inspirational moon-palace peom planet smelling food

Paul Auster

72823b5

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

science lem planet

Stanisław Lem

e521f95

"All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?" Arthur shrugged in a so-so sort of way. "I don't know," he said, taking a pull of beer. "Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?" Ford gave up. It really wasn't worth bothering at the moment, what with the world being about to end." --

alien aliens-abduct arthur-dent betelgeuse dent douglas douglas-adams ford ford-prefect world-ending planet arthur pub prefect

Douglas Adams

fa7afeb

It's so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that 'the world' is mundanely 'a planet.' The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.

world science planet

Douglas Coupland

4d7f0fd

Charles Wallace and the unicorn moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far glazy, and he realized that the galaxy itself was part of a mighty orchestra, and each star and planet within the galaxy added its own instrument to the music of the spheres. As long as the ancient harmonies were sung, the universe would not entirely lose its joy.

universe stars joy music musical-instrument orchestra planet singing harmony

Madeleine L'Engle

8cd80a3

And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.

earth world solar-system planet galaxy

Robert Ludlum

8a641a3

Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.

explosion mass-murder terrorists planet plague space-exploration

James S.A. Corey

86539fc

The planet is finished with us, at this point -

science truth planet

Zadie Smith

ac1a4db

I've heard that when you're in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you're hyper-aware of what's happening around you. As the shuttle careens toward the earth, the exact opposite is true for me. Everything silences, even the screams and shouts from the people on the other side of the metal door, the crashes that I pray aren't bodies, the hissing of rockets, Elder's cursing, my pounding heartbeat. I feel nothing--not the seat belt biting into my flesh, not my clenching jaw, nothing. My whole body is numb. Scent and taste disappear. The only thing about my body that works is my eyes,and they are filled with the image before them. The ground seems to leap up at us as we hurtle toward it. Through the blurry image of the world below us, I see the outline of land--a continent. And at once, my heart lurches with the desire to know this world, to make it our home. My eyes drink up the image of the planet--and my stomach sinks with the knowledge that this is a coastline I've never seen before. I could spin a globe of Earth around and still be able to recognize the way Spain and Portugal reach into the Atlantic, the curve of the Gulf of Mexico, the pointy end of India. But this continent--it dips and curves in ways I don't recognize, swirls into an unknown sea, creating peninsulas in shapes I do not know, scattering out islands in a pattern I cannot connect. And it's not until I see this that I realize: this world may one day become our home,but it will never be the home I left behind.

earth travel discovery life godspeed elder amy-martin beth-revis shades-of-earth shuttle planet mission crash home journey

Beth Revis

35ac4a9

"Q: How do you fall in love?

love jump planet

Jeanette Winterson

e980ccc

And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.

world truth centauri-earth new-place amy-martin atu-series shades-of-earth planet home

Beth Revis

4253241

Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the world. He had escaped from the old world and he hated to feel that he was being drawn back to share a common destiny with the rest of mankind.

world planet isolationism americans

H.G. Wells

abddbe9

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

man woman love helium planet

Edgar Rice Burroughs

cc4dccf

" ," Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. "Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real war has always been ahead of them, unseen, unimagined. Enemies who can't be killed by normal weapons, who have their base in an alternate universe, who are interested only in slaughtering every living being on the face of the planet."

war death planet demons

Darren Shan

f8890fa

But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.

world planet health

Elizabeth Gilbert