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The constellated soundsran sprinkling on earth’s floorAs the dark vault abovewith stars was spangled o’er.
Robert Bridges
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Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth’s surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

robert jastrow

— Robert Jastrow, Red Giants and White Dwarfs, 1979, p. 97.

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   Totakeanalmost religiousview, thisearthisnothing very special.There have probably been millions of earths just like ours each producing a particular intelligent species. That isnottosay thattheyall developed well, thattheyall achieved some sort of perfection. And if the planner made lots of them and some of them chose to destroy themselves,thenwe canonlysupposethattheplanner is a hard and practical man.

Sir Fred Hoyle

— 1974  In the Daily Mail.

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So my great love for thee lies tranquil, deep,Forever; though above it passions fierce,Ambition, hatred, jealousy; like wavesThat seem from earth’s core to the sky to leap,But ocean’s depths can never really pierce;Hide its great calm, while all the surface raves.

francis william bourdillon

— "Sonnet II" in Scribner's Monthly Vol. IX (November 1874 - April 1875), p. 359.

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We are earth’s best, that learnt her lesson here, Life is our cry. We have kept the faith! And when we die, All’s over that is ours; and life burns on Through other lovers, other lips, Heart of my heart, heaven is now, is won!

rupert brooke

— 1910

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Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swellingO’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore;How sweet the truth those blessed strains are tellingOf that new life when sin shall be no more.

frederick William faber

— The Pilgrims of the Night, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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These, in the day when heaven was falling,The hour when earth’s foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and are dead.Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;What God abandoned, these defended,And saved the sum of things for pay.

a. e. housman

— No. 37 ("Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries").

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But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth’s diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.

johannes kepler

— As quoted by Bryant, ibid.

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All earth’s full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

christina rossetti

— By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169.

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I hear beyond the range of sound,I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around,And in my day the sun doth pale his light.

Henry David Thoreau

— Inspiration, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900

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The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

Matthew Arnold

— St. 3. (Dover Beach (1867))

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Your rights reach down where all owners meet, in Hell's Pointed exclusive conclave, at earth’s centre (Your spun farm's root still on that axis dwells); And up, through galaxies, a growing sector.

william empson

— "Legal Fiction", line 9; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 37.

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I go as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

khalil gibran

— Crucified (The Madman (1918))

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Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth ’tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven Which die the while they glow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

— Untitled (1810); titled "Love's Rose" by William Michael Rossetti in Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1870).

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The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth’s history.

robert jastrow

— Robert Jastrow, Red Giants and White Dwarfs, 1979, p. 97. Letting the Fossil Record Speak, Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?

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And let a Scholler, all earths volumes carrie, He will be but a walking dictionarie.


— George Chapman Euthymiae Raptus; or, The Tears of Peace (1609), line 530; Phyllis Brooks Bartlett (ed.) The Poems of George Chapman (London: Oxford University Press, 1941) p. 185.

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Hyenas are slow in their pace, and altogether inactive; I have often seen a few terriers keep them at bay, and bite them severely by the hind quarters; their jaws, however, are exceedingly strong, and a single bite, without holding on, more than a few seconds, is sufficient to kill a large dog. They stink horribly, make no earths of their own, but lie under rocks, or resort to the earths of wolves, as foxes do to those of badgers, and it is not uncommon to find wolves and hyenas in the same bed of earths.


— Johnson, Daniel (1827), Sketches of Indian field sports, London, R. Jennings

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I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

robert frost

— "Birches" (1920)

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What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many earths, and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider the prodigious distance and multitude of the Stars?

christiaan huygens

— Book II Cosmotheoros pp. 150-151

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These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth’s reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.

robert charles wilson

— p. 29 (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009))

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Agronomy:;; or a Treatise on the Constituent Parts and Physical Properties of the Soil, and the best Method of acquiring a Knowledge of the different earths, and ascertaining their Value.


— Albrecht Thaer The Principles of Agriculture, Volume 1. William Shaw and Cuthbert W. Johnson (tr.). Ridgway, 1844. p. 258: Title and subtitle of section III of the book.

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"Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850."


— IPCC Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis

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Analogy would lead us to conclude that the combinations of the primordial matter, forming our so-called elements, are as universal or as liable to take place everywhere as are the laws of gravitation and centrifugal force. We must therefore presume that the gases, the metals, the earths, and other simple substances, (besides whatever more of which we have no acquaintance,) exist or are liable to come into existence under proper conditions, as well in the astral system, which is thirty five thousand times more distant than Sirius, as within the bounds of our own solar system or our own globe.


— p.28 (Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844))

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We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

christiaan huygens

— Book.1, p.11

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