Quotes tagged ‘Earth’
(131 total)
“I don’t ever remember a time when Earth, Mars and the Belt weren’t fighting. The sides change sometimes. What we think we’re fighting for. Who we tell ourselves are the good people. But it just seems we can’t ever stop fighting war after war after war. It’s part of being human. An ugly part, but I d…”
— Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, Naomi Nagata, Dominique Tipper, imdb.com
“Few animals larger than a hundred pounds survived the catastrophes of the late Cretaceous. The dust cloud brought night and cold to the surface for months. The dinosaurs froze and starved to death. But there were small creatures who took shelter in the Earth. And when they emerged they found that th…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“Two-thirds of the Earth lies beneath more than 1,000 feet of water. It's a vast and largely unexplored frontier....This is the longest submarine mountain range in the world, the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge. It wraps around our globe like the seam on a baseball. The past is another planet, but most of u…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“For thousands of generations we watched the stars as if our lives depended on it, because they did….[O]ur ancestors noticed that the motions of the stars across the nights of the year foretold changes on Earth that threatened or enhanced our chances for survival.”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com