Sentence examples for upon this planet from inspiring English sources
The phrase "upon this planet" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to Earth in a poetic or formal context, often to emphasize the significance of our existence or actions on Earth. Example: "Upon this planet, we must strive to protect our environment for future generations."
Or, as he might put it, suffering persecutions never seen upon this planet since Mel Gibson was tortured on the rack, castrated, disemboweled and beheaded in "Braveheart".
I for one will continue to wash out those used yogurt containers (yes, I admit it, a value judgment on my part) and will continue to look for ways to minimize the impact I am having upon this planet.
He expressed his dislike for Marie Corelli, one of England's most florid popular novelists, by saying that "in any other society than Marie Corelli's, my spirit is the sweetest that has ever yet descended upon this planet from my ancestors, the angels".
"Had you stumbled upon this planet in any other era, you might have concluded that we lived in an age of stone or bronze, an ice age, an age of reason, or an age of enlightenment," they write in "The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture" (Counterpoint, $26).
"Folklore may prove to be, not a romantic and colourful ragbag of the discarded and outworn ideas of humanity, but one of the great wellsprings of the democratic attitudes that have in the past two centuries begun to make for a more equitable life for all mankind upon this planet," he wrote to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1946, in one of his many applications for funding.
Upon this planet shall be constant war, Cod will come swarming back to Iceland's shore, Today's new fads become a facile bore.
And if that wasn't enough: upon entering this planet, Karlung shows me (with the excitement of a child) how the doors that open the armored rooms in which the servers are stored make pschhh sounds.
And if that wasn't enough: upon entering this planet, Karlung shows me (with the excitement of a child) how the doors that open the armoured rooms-in which the servers are stored-make pschhh sounds.
Six decades upon this wonderful planet, play-net, I see we get to exercise the roles, behaviors, emotions and the choices we make to plug'n play with the feelings they engender.
The reason that we refer to Rosh Hashanah as the "birthday of the world" -- even though, in a technical sense, it isn't -- is that the purpose of creation can only be fulfilled after we were placed upon this beautiful planet.
He believed that they independently evolved a nervous system and brains, meaning that "the path toward intelligent life was embarked upon more than once on this planet".
