“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.” FirstsScienceSunFivePlanetsMoonSevenRoundsSmallestMercurySaturnRevolving Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.” PeopleYearsCountryPoorFivePlanetsAverageBillionsZeroCarbonMaking ChangesCarbon DioxidePoor Countries Author:Bill Gates
“I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsThreeNaturalSupportFiveFourPlanetsHugeStandardsResourcesNatural ResourcesStandards Of LivingHigh Standards Author:Jane Goodall
“Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsLittlesStillsRealWould BeAgeTogetherDiesCommonExistenceFivePlanetsJokesPressureMereClimateClimate ChangeThis DayAfflictionThreateningDoing NothingGood PlaceNo Pressure Author:Franny Armstrong
“If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.” IfsShouldYearsStillsJoyFiveWillingPlanetsDestructionBillionsAstronomyWitnessOur PlanetUnprecedentedGloriaHistory Of Life Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“Doing Prometheus was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat, it felt like being a part of movie history.” RealActorsFeltFiveImaginePlanetsTreatsAliensPrometheus Author:Rafe Spall
“I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.” ThinkingWorldMadeJobsWaterFivePlanetsOceanPercentDiscoveryCoveredFabulousSeventiesBest Job Author:Edith Widder
“What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.” PeopleThinkingSoundHoursSleepFiveFourPlanetsSightVideoConsumptionConsuming Author:Jason Kilar
“I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.” PeopleThinkingGivingYearsMeanLittlesBrainIssuesFivePlanetsThousandYears AgoEnvironmentalThousand YearsStewardship Author:Douglas Coupland
“We live in a world, it's very hard for Americans to understand that every 20 seconds a kid dies, a kid under the age of five, right, dies somewhere on the Earth because of lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Every 20 seconds that happens on our planet. It's just very hard for us to relate to.” WorldHardHappensKidsAgeEarthDiesWaterFivePlanetsCleanAccessRelateSecondsOur PlanetClean WaterSanitation Author:Matt Damon
“It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.” ShouldLittlesWould BeLawAnimalFiveFeetPlanetsEternalEternityContemptCaprice Book:The Complete Romances of Voltaire Source: The Complete Romances of Voltaire
“Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.” ThinkingUseNumbersFiveMankindPlanetsPerspectiveConceptsOptimismPessimismJustificationBloodyOptimistUtopiaPessimist Author:Milan Kundera
“When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.” WorldWould BeCareLeftNumbersFiveMinutesPlanetsWalkingThousandWeaponsWinterClubsConvincedNuclearElitesSaneNuclear WeaponsSurvivedHandfulBucksWonderlandNukesWorld PowerNuclear WinterIslamabad Author:Mark Steyn
“Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.” WorldYearsTwoPlayPastTurnsOpportunityFivePlanetsPercentHollywoodOpeningAround The WorldThirtyTwo YearsDeclineLocationSeventiesOver The PastHarmonicas Author:Jon Stewart