Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or civil:
“It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm
The flakes could find no landing place to form.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)