Round Earth Quotes:

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Sunset, Islands, Sea, Sunrise And Sunset, Gloaming

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

- Alexey Leonov

source: "How Camera Drones are Changing Our World (and us)" by Claudine Chicheportiche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.

topic: Believe, Home, Light, Light Blue, Earth And Sky

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

topic: Faith, Moon, Religion, Theism, Religious Faith

The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.

- Matt Taibbi

source: "A sense of adventure" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2005.

topic: Discovery, Two, History, Round Earth

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

- John Muir

topic: Life, Time, Nature, Inspiring Nature, Vapor

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours...

- Black Elk

source: Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

topic: Stars, Native American, Wind, Indian Wisdom, Cherokee

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

- John Donne

topic: Angel, Blow, Earth, Round Earth

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Men, Thinking, Average, Round Earth

A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

- Mary Antin

topic: Practice, Use, Elements, Excursions, Round Earth

The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

- Matthew Arnold

topic: Faith, Night, Wind, Girdles, Round Earth

. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

topic: Life, Dream, Prayer, Praying To God, Prayers Not Being Answered

Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

- Laurie Davidson

topic: Inspirational, Recovery, Thinking, Round Earth

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Men, Practice, Quality, Airmen, Round Earth

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

- John Keats

source: 'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

topic: Sweet, Art, Stars, Ripening, Moving Water

Dilbert: You joined the "Flat Earth Society?" Dogbert: I believe the earth must be flat. There is no good evidence to support the so-called "round earth theory." Dilbert: I think Christopher Columbus would disagree. Dogbert: How convenient that your best witness is dead.

- Scott Adams

topic: Believe, Science, Thinking, Dilbert, Round Earth