Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other…

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

— Charles W. Waterman

To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole…

— Paul J. H. Schoemaker

“The earth’s surface is over 70 percent covered in water, and sometimes I wonder about a drop of water resting on my shoulder, whether…

— Tsh Oxenreider

Most of the planet is covered with water, so there must be a clue to its worth in that fact.

— Chris Eubank Sr

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers,…

— Charles Dickens

“Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and…so little vs. …so much!”

— Wes Adamson

Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere.…

— Malcolm Wells

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

— Henry David Thoreau

... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the…

— Selma Lagerlöf

“I was like a sea pulled by two moons. This must mean a boiling of the waters, tides that rushed up and carried away…

— Rebecca West

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song…

— Garth Brooks

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

— H. L. Mencken

As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,…

— Richard Branson

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is…

— Roger Ebert