“Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.” EarthEnvironmentShareStupidCreaturesStructureBonesContemptHeritageDnaAuntSibling Book:Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister) Source: Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)
“This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones” LittlesI CanEarthFacesLandStonesSkinsBonesDustPatches Author:Ralph McTell
“All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.” HomeEarthRememberForgetSubjectsMankindBrokenBonesJapanConsentChillMantrasPromptsCalmerBroken HomesBroken Bone Author:Simon Winchester
“In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.” EarthWhiteSawsFlowerGrewCornersBonesMilkFeedingVioletProsperousPlantations Book:The ballad and the source Source: The ballad and the source