Famous quotes containing the words earth, defense and/or fleet:
“The earth is all alive and covered with papillæ.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)