No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the…

“I can hear the Colonel—no land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth—but it does not make me feel any better.”

— Philipp Meyer

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

— Rachel Carson

In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting…

— Bernhard von Cotta

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the…

— Rachel Carson

“A grain of sand you, trample upon has a deeper significance than a series of lectures by your verbal philosopher whom you respect. It…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Had General Soo known the history of Earth, he would have known that Peace, as currently practiced by the humans, was a relatively new…

— Steven L. Hawk

If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the…

— John Burroughs

Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the…

— Neil Shubin

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

— Anonymous

“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd say, "Left…

— Robert Charles Wilson

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has…

— Edward Forbes

“The cedars 'know the history of the earth better than history itself.' If this was so, it was little wonder that they had clung…

— Robert Fisk

The greatest city in the history of the Earth. -Wes Mantooth

— Anchorman 2

“Pages could be written on the immense losses of productive soil that occur annually in almost every continent of the earth; on lethal air…

— Murray Bookchin

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

— Benjamin Disraeli