“Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.” NeedsHumansDoeImportantCoursesPlanetsBearsSavingLionsElephantsTigersAntsApesSharksSquirrelsTurtlesGiraffeBeetlesRaccoons Author:James Lee
“Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.” NeedsBelieveImportantCoursesPlanetsSurvivalWindowImportanceHungryCrucialMiceCatchingHawks Author:Steven Pressfield
“The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?” ImportantPlanetsWorth ItImportant QuestionsIs It Worth It Author:Robert Bateman
“I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.” PeopleFeelsShouldHumansImportantEarthMotherRocksPlanetsHarmonyMother EarthFormatSave Mother Earth Author:Jimmy Carl Black
“But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?” ImportantFormSunImagineParticularPlanetsUniversalVanityAppropriateManifestImagine ThatStaggering Author:John Wyndham
“The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.” ImportantHumanityOpportunityVisionForeverPlanetsAchievementUnlimitedApolloDemonstratingChained Author:Neil Armstrong
“17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman’s most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don’t laugh at it anymore. I just realize now that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.” KnowsShouldChildrenPersonsImportantFactsHomeCareEarthJobsUsedMotherRealizingLaughingPlanetsConsciousOur ChildrenBlowChairsLaughedImportant Jobs Author:Marianne Williamson
“That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.” FirstsImportantAmericaPoliticalProgressAtheismPlanetsWallPositive AtheismContributionAmendmentsFirst AmendmentImportant Contributions Author:Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
“It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.” WorldImportantChanceGonePlanetsConsciousConcernedEchoesPositivelyOne Chance Author:Alex Gaskarth
“It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.” GivingImportantRealizingViewsPlanetsConflictNewsViolentPercentages Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.” ThinkingWorldWayBelieveImportantUseRealityImaginePlanetsImportant ThingsSpreadBelieve In YouVisualizationPragmaticPower Of Visualization Author:Yoko Ono
“I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.” WantLoveLifeFeelsI CanImportantRealProblemTodayPainBitsNiceStagePlanetsBearsAreasYesterdayReal LifeWeatherAwfulIntimacyRestaurantsLove LifeDiscussingSmall Talk Author:Simon Amstell
“When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.” PeopleWorldFeelsPersonsImportantCarePlanetsLike YouTruth IsPercentBillionsImportant PersonMost Important PersonCould Care Less Author:Jonah Hill
“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets.” BelieveHumansLongImportantHumanityI BelieveTermSpaceRacePlanetsSurvivalHuman RaceLong TermOur FutureDisappearanceImportant Life Author:Stephen Hawking
“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.” ChildrenPersonsImportantWisdomRealityPoliticalFightingPoliticsNatureCommunityLeadershipPartyFamilyHistoryOur LivesGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyMovementPlanetsBattleOur ChildrenStrategyUnityClimateClimate ChangeHuman RightsAll TimeIdeologyPolitical PartiesCivilitySingle PersonGrassrootsGrassroots Movements Author:Emma Thompson
“I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.” ThinkingYearsWellsPersonsImportantMatterProblemHumanityEffortKnowingPlanetsDramaNo Matter WhatWell BeingSingle Person Author:Salma Hayek
“But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.” WorldWantMindHumansImportantWholeUseRealityRealizingLosesAbilityPlanetsApproachConceptsEnvironmentalWhole WorldForestsTrappedCommodityConstructsStewardshipSacredness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.” MindImportantUseBodyEarthSpiritualFormUsedSpiritJourneyPlanetsElementsAspectTreatsHolinessDestructiveReverenceSpiritual Journey Author:Marianne Williamson
“Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.” PeopleYearsImportantTalkingFiguresPlanetsRememberedHistory Of Music Author:Brett Ratner
“As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.” PeopleHumansImportantEarthHuman BeingsAnimalImaginePlanetsConsciousReach OutSolar System Author:Steve Martin
“Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.” WorldWantImportantPlanetsConnectingConnecting The World Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.” ImportantRememberBornForgetGoneWonderfulEventsPlanetsMassForget EverythingImportant Events Author:Richard Bach
“It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.” GivingImportantLostVoiceAnimalSharePlanetsIncluding Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.” ArtI CanImportantSeemsResultsHappenedPlanets Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some ways it's important to be the vessels for grief for all that's being lost on our planet. But we also need to be forward thinking.” ThinkingWayNeedsImportantLostLossGriefPlanetsEnvironmentalVesselOur PlanetLamentForward Thinking Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.” IfsImportantMatterPoliticsTechnologyWorryGoneLandPlanetsTomorrowPeriodsConflictAll ThingsIndiaAncientBurdenChinaBordersYieldMarsGiverOld DaysSettlementAncient History Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.” WorldShouldPersonsImportantPlanetsDestructionThirdsScaryDebtCorporationsGlobal WarmingOngoingOutrageThird WorldRailwayUselessnessTakeovers Author:Arthur Smith
“Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.” IfsThinkingShouldImportantWould BeEarthHumanityEnergyStrangePlanetsCitizensMembersLaughterResponsibleRewardsProfessionUnusualSaneOur PlanetExplosives Book:Funny people Source: Funny people
“You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.” PeopleFeelsImportantYoungPassionOpportunityVoiceImaginationPowerfulPlanetsEmployeeMost PowerfulEducateStirringLone Author:Anita Roddick
“It's a very important issue to me, trying to wake people up to the fact that we'd better take better care of our planet.” PeopleTryingImportantFactsCareIssuesPlanetsOur PlanetImportant Issues Author:Dan Fogelberg
“Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.” IfsShouldImportantDifferentAgeJobsYoungFallFatherBoysPlanetsSonToughBaseballInstinctHardestKneesInteractionTendernessSensibilityYoung AgeImpartParentalYour SonBeing A FatherHardest Job Author:Malik Yusef
“Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is very interesting and important because he was also a metaphysician. He knew a great deal about what was, for him, contemporary science. He was very much influenced by Isaac Newton, for example. There are planets and meteors and so on showing up in his hymns very often. But, again, the scale of his religious imagination corresponds to a very generously scaled scientific imagination.” ImportantCoursesImaginationReligiousInterestingDealsCenturyExamplePlanetsTraditionScalesContemporaryVery InterestingNewtonHymnsShowing UpIsaacMeteors Author:Marilynne Robinson
“The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.” HumansImportantFoundLeftResponsibilityGenerationsPlanetsShapesScientistResponsibleImportant ThingsClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingFuture GenerationChanging EnvironmentEnvironmental Responsibility Author:Mike Huckabee
“The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.” ImportantIdeasExistencePlanetsComical Author:Dave Matthews
“The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.” NeedsWellsHeartLittlesImportantProblemSpiritualPoliticalOrderRealizingRichPlanetsIntellectualConnectionsGreenProfoundIntuitionHealWell BeingAnalysisAddressesYearningProblem SolvingOur PlanetVacuumsInner LifeFragmentedPolitical Change Author:Petra Kelly
“Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.” ImportantKidsAudiencePlanets Author:Ziggy Marley
“Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldWellsImportantDifferentWholeCultureSimpleAnimalLevelsPlanetsDiversitySurvivalSpeciesSavedEcologyEcologicalDifferent Cultures Author:Richard Gere
“What I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What do you really want? And I think that's much harder to decipher in a culture that has no interest in it. What interests me is, are we going to wake in time? Are human beings going to wake up to ourselves, to the incredible poverty that's on this planet, to what we're doing to the earth, to what we're doing to women, to what we're doing to boys? That's what's important.” ThinkingWantHumansImportantRealEarthYoungCultureInterestHuman BeingsPayAttentionBoysPovertyPlanetsHarderWake UpIncrediblesPay AttentionYoung WomenWhat's ImportantDecipher Author:Eve Ensler
“Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.” PeopleImportantMotivationWishRealizingEffortExamplePlanetsActivityFameProtectCharityProfitVariousSincereOur PlanetCharitableCharity Work Author:Li Bingbing
“Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the planet. I still go back every year. It reminds me of what's important in life.” YearsStillsImportantBeautifulGrowing UpGrowingPlanetsSummerTownsGrandparentWhat's ImportantBeautiful PlacesCroatia Author:Vanya Asher
“I've always been an environmentalist, but my life changed the day I had children. I realized that I wasn't doing enough to protect the planet. People need nature, and of course I want my children to have the best possible opportunity in life. I also realized how important it was for me to raise them to be conscientious people that are aware of their impact on the earth.” PeopleWantNeedsChildrenImportantEnoughEarthCoursesOpportunityChangedPlanetsProtectRaisesImpactI RealizedMy ChildrenLife ChangingEnvironmentalist Author:Julia Roberts
“Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.” I CanImportantLostIssuesPlanetsCitizensGladImportant IssuesGetting Lost Author:Bonnie Raitt
“One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.” PeopleWorldImportantTodayFightingChallengesEffortMillionsEnvironmentPlanetsDrugWeaponsMassDestructionTerrorismObjectivesStableOur PlanetPredictableJoiningFamineWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionBiodiversityProliferationTraffickingDrug Trafficking Author:Vladimir Putin
“There are so many things that we love. Whatever it is, there's a lot of really important things that affect how we live our lives, the simplicity of our life, so we love organizations that help make the planet cleaner and healthier, a place where you can be more connected.” ImportantHelpingOur LivesPlanetsOrganizationImportant ThingsSimplicityConnectedCleaners Author:Mariel Hemingway
“Know that originally none of us are from Earth. We all have natural origins off the planet. We are having human experience, but one thing we're going to have to come to understand - and I know that's a lot for some people - is that our heritage is within the galactic origin. We are going to come into alignment with that by remembering our individual origins - and that's going to be a very important part of our enlightenment process.” PeopleKnowsHumansImportantEarthRememberIndividualProcessNaturalOne ThingPlanetsEnlightenmentHeritageHuman ExperienceAlignment Author:Christine McCormick Day
“The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.” IfsMenImportantBodyEarthHe ManPlanetsInstanceCompareAstronomers Author:Paul Virilio
“If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.” PeopleIfsMenWritingSaidImportantWould BeBeautifulDiesCausesWhitePlanetsBrotherBrownWhite ManGrandchildrenAbolitionistJohn Brown Author:Dick Gregory
“The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.” WellsChildrenImportantEarthWaterAbilityAnimalEnvironmentGenerationsAirConditionsPlanetsOur ChildrenPlantSurfaceBreatheWelfareSurroundingsOur PlanetFuture GenerationPlants And Animals Author:Yaya Toure
“I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!” PeopleThinkingHumansImportantCan DoRacePlanetsImportant ThingsHuman RaceEmpoweringOur PlanetEmpowering WomenSave Our Planet Author:Robert Ballard
“My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.” PeopleShouldPersonsImportantIndividualDifferencesMy OwnPlanetsDiversityConsumersProtectedPreferencePersonal Preferences Author:Tim Berners-Lee