Mother Earth

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or earth:

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)