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Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

— Jules Verne

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

— George A. Smith

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

— Amos Oz

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

— Lucy Larcom

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

— Laura Dern

If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an hour. It's called the asthenosphere - a sluggish sea, several hundred miles thick, on which floats the Earth's cool epidermis - the so-called tectonic plates.

— Seth Shostak

✗Opposing Perspectives

All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.

— Apollonius of Tyana

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

— Pope Benedict XVI

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin