Quick Quotes on Earth
 

"It is impossible for me to describe the beauty of the earth. It is  a breathtaking, awe-inspiring, spiritual experience to view the earth from space  while traveling at twenty-five times the speed of sound. I could also look into  the blackness of the vacuum of space and see billions of stars and galaxies millions of light-years away. The universe is so vast as to be impossible to comprehend. But I did comprehend the hand of God in all things. I felt his  presence throughout my seven days in space. I know that God created this earth and universe. I know that we are his children wherever we live on the earth, without regard to our nationality or the color of our skin. Most important, I know that God lives and is the Creator of us all." -Quoted by M. Russell  Ballard, Ensign, May 1988, p. 58.

"The world and the earth are not synonymous terms.  The world is the human family.  This earth was organized or formed out of other planets which were broken up and remodeled and made into the one on which we live.  The elements are eternal.  In the translation, 'without form and void', it should read, 'empty and desolate'.  The word 'created' should be 'formed or organized'."  -Elders Franklin D. Richards and James A. Little, "A Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel" p. 271