Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is fresh water, and most of this is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, in soil moisture, or in deep aquifers not readily accessible for human use.
Norman Borlaug
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But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
Charles Hodge
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
Victor Francis Hess
EarthSaidQuestionAnswerMayWell
Everyone knows Earth, Wind & Fire. We know 'September,' all the big sort of hits from going out and dancing and stuff. When I was developing St. Lucia, I really started listening a little bit deeper, listening back to their stuff from the '70s and '80s, and really dug into it.
St. Lucia
FireWindListeningBackEarthKnow
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
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If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
YouEarthRightHimReasonSee
My mum is just the sweetest person on Earth, and if I turned into her, I wouldn't be that upset at all; in fact, it would be an honour.
Margot Robbie
EarthPersonUpsetHerJustWould
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
Jill Tarter
LifeScienceThinkingHumanityEarth
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
FriendMeEndDownEarthDesire
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.
Jose Clemente Orozco
FashionEarthIronMachinesShips
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus
SunEarthWhateverMotionRather
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
Charles Morgan
WineMomentsEarthNothingHand
Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.
Uzodinma Iweala
HappyBe HappyEarthAchieveLiving
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
NatureVoiceBornEarthOthersAir
If you're one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don't leave early. You just don't. If it's a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don't leave early.
Willie Geist
LeaderWoodsYouTigerEarlyEarth
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.
Henri Poincare
SpaceEarthKnowSayExistenceMark
Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.
Marco Rubio
ValuePeopleBelieveYearEarth
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
Jesse Jackson
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad
GoodWaitingPeopleFateBornEarth
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
OceanEarthForthEverywhereDeeper
Since we're all Mother Earth's children, I like to think that more and more of us will be out there helping her against those who are hurting her.
Catherine Oxenberg
MotherChildrenThinkEarthWillUs
Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
Tecumseh
SeaChildrenGreatCountryEarth
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
Stewart Udall
LoveBeautyWonderEarthWild
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