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Earth Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.…
- He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless…
- By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
- Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him…
- They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais…
- They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up…
- Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My…
- Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
- The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
- He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the…
- The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west…
- He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a…
More Earth Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann