#planet

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#capita #continue #each #ever #fighting

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait. ↗

— Jay Kay

#best #ever #however #i #impatient

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#disappear #kind #middle-aged #off #planet

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#advanced #am #because #extinct #i

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. ↗

— Alice Walker

#being #being used #bombs #contributes #fragile

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. ↗

— Alice Walker

#americas #best #care #elder #planet

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#announced #child #generate #human #i

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#correct #planets #sun #teaches #use

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. ↗

— Jules Massenet

#behind #departed #each #earthly #i

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#around #child #comfortable #court #entertain