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The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

Robert Crippen

Time

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

History

Earth

Mankind

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

Bill Cosby

American

Earth

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Earth

Sun

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Earth