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Quotes of the Day for 14 December 2004 - Planets

On this day in 1962 Mariner 2 flew by the planet Venus with a host of sensing equipment to get a new understanding of our sister planet. It was the first time the enterprise of mankind reached out to another planet. It turns out that Venus would not be a good place for a vacation home, but it's probably a good thing we're a curious enough species to go find out.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
     - Charles Kuralt, 1934 - 1997

In terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.
     - Helen Caldicott

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
     - Iris Murdoch

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
     - Neil Armstrong

When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.
     - Wayne Walter Dyer

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