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Alice Walker1 quote
We have a beautiful mother
Her green lap immense
Her brown embrace eternal
Her blue body everything
We know. — Alice Walker · 1991Arthur C. Clarke1 quote
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. — Arthur C. Clarke · 1990Christopher Columbus1 quote
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. — Christopher Columbus · 1498John Milton1 quote
What if earth
Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein
Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? — John Milton · 1667Lewis Thomas1 quote
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth... Is that it is alive... Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, cleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun. — Lewis Thomas · 1973Lyndon B. Johnson1 quote
Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1965Marilynne Robinson1 quote
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. — Marilynne Robinson · 2004Robert Thorne1 quote
There is no land unhabitable nor sea innavigable. — Robert Thorne · 1589