Mother Earth

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or earth:

“Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.”
—English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)

“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)