Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or crust:
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)