Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or orbits:
“But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)