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Earth
«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.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
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Earth
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an island, distances, in a sense, island, islands, planet Earth, situate, situated, situating
«If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed [and] if we are not willing [to change], we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.»
«If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.»
«If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us than any knowledge of our fellow beings. We were bred of the earth before we were born of our mothers. Once born, we can live without our mothers or our fathers or any other kin or friend, or even human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in man?s heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.»
«If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.»
Author: Norman R. Augustine
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Earth,
Managers
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everyone else, managers, rotate, rotating
«Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables»
«In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.»
Author: Rachel Carson
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Earth
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beach, curving, grain, headland, On the Beach, outthrust, sand, The Beaches, The Story