Top 41 Earth Belongs Quotes
#1. It is forbidden, not to be happy. For, as it has been explained to us, men are free and the earth belongs to them; and all things on earth belong to all men; and the will of all men together is good for all; and so all men must be happy. Yet
Ayn Rand
#2. The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures ... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.
Thomas Berry
#3. From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
Ben Klassen
#4. I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. The earth belongs to Allah, we're just visitors - sojourners.
Janette Grant
#6. All this is still my kingdom, a small portion of the splendid riches which God distributes to passers-by, to wanderers and to solitaries. The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and goes on his way; the whole sun belongs to the naked lizard who basks in it.
Colette
#7. No society can make a perpetual constitution ... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose
#9. Nothing on the Earth belongs to us but time. - Zarica - The Sowing Seed
Jason Lenov
#10. The meek don't inherit shit. Earth belongs to the wolves.
Hugh Howey
#12. Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. Everything on this earth belongs to God and therefore the more your dedication draws you closer to him, the more you will draw closer to what God owns
Sunday Adelaja
#15. The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few ... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.
Ambrose
#16. It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
William Graham Sumner
#18. Man may have rank and position and a thousand qualifications, he may possess all the good of the earth, but if he lacks the art of personality he is poor indeed. It is in this art that man shows the nobility which belongs to the kingdom of God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#19. It doesn't really matter how rich you are, we're all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.
Louie Giglio
#20. I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.
Winona LaDuke
#21. Our planet Earth has a diameter of 0.04 light-seconds. Neptune's orbit spans 8 light-hours. The stars of the Milky Way galaxy delineate a broad, flat disk about 100,000 light-years across. And the Virgo supercluster of galaxies, to which the Milky Way belongs, extends some 60 million light-years.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. If you are connected and one with yourself, even something as massive as the Earth feels as if it belongs to you, something you want to love and care for.
Ilchi Lee
#23. What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?
Massasoit
#24. To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.
Phillips Brooks
#25. Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man
Chief Seattle
#26. you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us al, and that the earth itself belongs to nobody
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#27. Fear belongs to the devil. Let that beast keep it. Faith belongs to the Lord. Give that to Him. Let your faith in your Father overthrow the hells of this Earth.
Kelly O'Callan
#28. Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.
Charles L. Allen
#29. There are nights when a crowded ballroom can be the loneliest place on earth, when every happy face belongs to a stranger and every smile is meant for another, and love is as fleeting as the latest waltz
Mia Gabriel
#30. Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?"
"Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me." He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.
Cassandra Clare
#31. A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
Adam Smith
#32. In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.
Mark Hertsgaard
#33. This we know, the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. So hold in your mind the memory on the land as it is when you take it. And, with all your strength, with all your mind, and with all your heart ...
Chief Seattle
#34. There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays.
E. Hoffmann Price
#35. In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.
Gertrude Lawrence
#36. The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.
Anne Rice
#37. I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.
Saint John Chrysostom
#38. The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Cassandra Clare
#39. Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#40. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one.
Edward Abbey
#41. You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
Cesare Pavese
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