Earth Quote by Anthony Marra

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Martian invasion: sure, the Army understands what it needs to do, if not necessarily how to go about it. Religious apocalypses involving the Four…

— Charles Stross

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

— Oscar Wilde

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an…

— Joseph Conrad

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order...

— Thomas Paine

“What I invaded as invaded me.”

— Denise Levertov

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

— Clare Boothe Luce

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou…

— Saint Augustine

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her…

— Jim Morrison

And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson