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:

    “At middle night great cats with silver claws,
    Bodies of shadow and blind eyes like pearls,
    Came up out of the hole, and red-eared hounds
    With long white bodies came out of the air
    Suddenly, and ran at them and harried them.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if the town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)