White Earth

White Earth/White Earths may refer to:

  • Zaculeu ("White Earth"), pre-classic city of the Mam-Maya of Guatemala (Saqulew in modern orthography)
    • Saqulewab, "White Earths", referring to the Mam people in the Popol Vuh
United States
  • White Earth, Minnesota, a census-designated place
  • White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota
    • White Earth Band of Ojibwe
  • White Earth River (Minnesota)
  • White Earth, North Dakota, a small city
  • White Earth River (North Dakota)
Other uses
  • A special case derived from Earth climate simulations whereby the Earth is plunged into a state of total glaciation. Seems to provide statistical support for the Snowball Earth theory.
  • The White Earth, a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Andrew McGahan

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or earth:

    “I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.”
    —William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon] (b. 1939)