Earth Quote by William Wordsworth

“One sets off to investigate you see, to develop the facility to really notice things so that, over time, and with enough practice, one…

— Claire-Louise Bennett

“By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment’s idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that…

— Arthur Machen

“And yet—and this was even more frightening still—I could also feel something within me come undone. Even today, all these decades later, I cannot…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse…

— László Krasznahorkai

“Solum invoked a sensation akin to lingering déjà vu in the wake of a dream. It was not Earth. Its city-planet architectural stylings hid…

— G.S. Jennsen

“I've seen marvelous things, Sunday. I've looked back from the edge of the system and seen this planet, this Earth, reduced to a tiny…

— Alastair Reynolds

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible…

— Albert Camus

“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:—in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. To…

— George Eliot

“We had proceeded but a few days, coasting the crushing capes of rock that every where seemed to run out in a diablerie of…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

“The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean,…

— Victor Hugo

“Hence the dazzling mountain scene that takes our breath away should not provoke us to try to seize and freeze the moment, but to…

— Daniel J. Treier