Earth Proverbs

Sayings about Earth

Mother earth promised to tell her secrets to heaven. ~ Serbian Proverb

The earth will cover the doctor's mistakes. ~ Ukrainian Proverb

As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth. ~ Afghan Proverb

The earth is God's bride -- she feeds the living and cherishes the dead. ~ Malagasy Proverb

Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole. ~ Dutch Proverb

From the black earth there grows the finest grain. ~ Yiddish Proverb

The earth produces all things and receives all again. ~ Spanish Proverb

Heaven and hell can both be found on earth. ~ Yiddish Proverb

The earth is a giant cooking pot and men are the meat therein. ~ Malagasy Proverb

Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home. ~ West African Proverb

All riches come from the earth. ~ Armenian Proverb

Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells. ~ Bantu Proverb

Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. ~ Chinese Proverb

The earth is a host who kills his guests. ~ Iranian Proverb

In this world I greet my oldest survivor -- the earth. ~ New Zealander Proverb

The earth is man's only friend. ~ Bulgarian Proverb

The distance between heaven and earth is no greater than one thought. ~ Mongolian Proverb


You travel on until you return home; you live on until you return to earth. ~ Ethiopian Proverb

He who looks only at heaven may easily break his nose on earth. ~ Czech Proverb

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it. ~ Scottish Proverb

All earthly goods we have only on loan. ~ Arabian Proverb

The earth is not thirsty for the blood of the warriors but for the sweat of man's labor. ~ Brazilian Proverb

A mother-in-law may be good, but she is better when mother earth covers her up. ~ Catalonian Proverb

When the earth is hot, the worm stays in the ground. ~ Native American Proverb

While the sun is still up, let people work that the earth may live. ~ Hawaiian Proverb

Six feet of earth make us all equal. ~ Italian Proverb

When the sky falls down, the earth shall melt. ~ Malawian Proverb

For each man produced by heaven, earth provides a grave. ~ Chinese Proverb

Lend to God and the earth -- they both pay good interest. ~ Swedish Proverbs

Earth belongs to the brave but heaven to those who deserve it. ~ Basque Proverb

Heaven on earth is to be found on horseback, reading books and between a woman's breasts. ~ Arabian Proverb

Poetry moves heaven and earth. ~ Japanese Proverb

On earth it's hard and heaven is far away. ~ Afghan Proverb

The earth has ears, the wind has a voice. ~ Turkish Proverb

Man is the flower of the earth. ~ Vietnamese Proverb

The bird flies high, but always returns to earth. ~ Nigerian Proverb

It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone. ~ Traditional Proverb

The earth offers you a grave everywhere. ~ Chinese Proverb

All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment. ~ French Proverb

He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth. ~ Chinese Proverb

Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth. ~ Dutch Proverb

The man is heaven and earth in miniature. ~ Chinese Proverb

There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth. ~ Venezuelan Proverb

Cheat the earth and the earth will cheat you. ~ Chinese Proverb

Earth is dearer than gold. ~ Estonian Proverb

Earth is the queen of beds. ~ Nigerian Proverb

The law is three days older than the earth. ~ Estonian Proverb

The gravity of the earth is so strong that the old grey man walks crooked. ~ Armenian Proverb

Heaven and earth shall never meet. ~ African Proverb

The earth does not shake when the flea coughs. ~ Austrian Proverb

Gold that falls to earth never dims. ~ Thai Proverb

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. ~ Jewish Proverb

Men make the earth black from green leaves. ~ Turkish Proverb

As a child, is a man wrapped in his mother's womb; as an adult, in tradition; comes death, and he is wrapped in earth. ~ Malawian Proverb

Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money. ~ Traditional Proverb

We have never seen the earth show her teeth. ~ African Proverb

Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children. ~ Kenyan Proverb

The chameleon changes color to match the earth, the earth doesn't change color to match the chameleon. ~ Senegalese Proverb

Quotations about Earth

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. ~ Thomas Merton

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ~ Jules Renard

The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. ~ Thomas Jefferson

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. ~ Douglas MacArthur

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~ John Lubbock

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three. ~ Robert Montgomery

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. ~ W. H. Auden

The earth and its resources belong of right to its people. ~ Gifford Pinchot

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. ~ Daniel Webster

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. ~ Khalil Gibran

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. ~ William Shakespeare

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. ~ Sidney Sheldon

We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press. ~ Joanna Baillie

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home. ~ John H. Vincent

The flowers are but earth vivified. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. ~ Bryan Procter

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Kahlil Gibran

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ Ferdinand Foch

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan

Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those who will inherit the earth from me. ~ Arthur Dobrin

Our earthly possessions will indeed perish in the final wreck of all things; but let the ship perish, let all we have sink in the deep, if we may come "safe to land." From these storms and billows--these dangerous seas--these tempestuous voyages--may we all be brought at last safe to heaven. ~ Albert Barnes

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man. ~ Pliny the Elder

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. ~ Evo Morales

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. ~ Charles Dickens

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Speak no harsh, words of earth; she is our mother, and few of us her sons who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. ~ Alexander Smith

Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. ~ Marlee Matlin

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. ~ Evo Morales

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross