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Earth Quotes by Lucretius
- For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
- Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
- ...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape…
- I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward…
- Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
- Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they…
- And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds…
- (On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied…
- What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
- Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods
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