#distances

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

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The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

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