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:

    “There’s many a white hand holds an urn
    With lovers’ hearts to dust consumed.”
    —George Darley (1795–1846)

    “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)