Globe/history

Famous quotes containing the words globe and/or history:

“Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so rich and varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)