Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or object:
“We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)