#earth

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#bible #earth #eat #like #other

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#around #asia #becoming #disasters #earthquakes

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic bomb #believe #bomb #civilization #earth

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

#determination #discouragements #earth #face #father

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. ↗

— Ben Elton

#change #does #earth #ever #inventing

I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#been #centre #earth #finished #go

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field. ↗

— David R. Brower

#another #aware #earth #field #gravitational

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! ↗

— Sitting Bull

#come #earth #embraces #friends #gladly

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#away #buildings #claim #earth #fence

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#embrace #love #received #results #see