Catastrophe Planet

Famous quotes containing the words catastrophe and/or planet:

“Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)