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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. -- Henry David Thoreau
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents. -- Peter Garrett
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. -- Italo Calvino
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. -- Joshua Slocum
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? -- David R. Brower
Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved. -- Annie Besant
Continents of memory had been lost. -- Alan Lightman
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. -- James Agee
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! -- Thabo Mbeki
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia. -- Dorothy Parker
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. -- Martha Gellhorn
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. -- George Mikes
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. -- Gilbert Parker
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. -- John Donne
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? -- Jared Diamond
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa. -- Thabo Mbeki
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. -- George Catlin
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die. -- James Young
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. -- Terry Pratchett
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. -- Nelson Mandela
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. -- Joseph Hume
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. -- John Muir
It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. -- Edward E. Barnard
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
The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonisation byany European powers? In the wars of the Europeanpowers inmattersrelating to ourselves, we have never taken any part; nor does it comport with our policy to do so. -- John Quincy Adams
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents. -- Tina Brown
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness. -- Os Guinness
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. -- Alva Myrdal
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. -- Gail Collins
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'. -- Elizabeth Bishop
We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth. -- Nathan Wolfe
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. -- E. O. Wilson
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents. -- Philip Glass
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations. -- Aristide Briand
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed. -- John Ortberg
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home. -- David Suzuki
I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters. -- Dino De Laurentiis
I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday. -- Dean Karnazes
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous. -- Haile Selassie
Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe. -- John Prendergast
Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone. -- Seth Shostak
In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything. -- Alan Huffman
My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me. -- Hill Harper
As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing challenge is to bridge the gap between what I envision and its understanding and practical implementation. The Arison Group operates to realize the overall vision of Doing Good. -- Shari Arison
As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill. -- Amanda Schull
Even the continents drift. -- George Will
I have a trunk containing continents. -- Beryl Markham
The earth does not need new continents, but new men. -- Jules Verne
There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers. -- Tom Robbins
In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents. -- Alex Shoumatoff
It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men. -- Jules Verne
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. -- William Golding
Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account. -- Romano Prodi
I'm a child of the universe, I have lived in almost all continents. -- Micere Githae Mugo
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore. -- Brian Tracy
You've no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents... -- Paul Johnson
If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent. -- Bertrand Russell
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders. -- Curt Sachs
single universe, many planets,many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others. -- Hamzatribah
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language. -- Billy Graham
'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed -- Barack Obama
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on. -- Herbert Harold Read
There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes. -- Frederick Lenz
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward. -- George Steiner
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. -- Cleopatra
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God. -- Christopher Columbus
A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows. -- Adam Zagajewski
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples. -- Mahatma Gandhi
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. -- Mother Teresa
Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives. -- D. H. Lawrence
Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change. -- Anne Sexton
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
The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me. -- Anne Waldman
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world. -- Henry A. Kissinger
'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades. -- Leslie Parrott
Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it? -- Sam Worthington
I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents. -- Ulrich Beck
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness. -- Gautama Buddha
I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them. -- Tracy Morgan
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. -- Edward Abbey
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us. -- Diane Setterfield
Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S. -- Leila Janah
Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are today missionaries on other continents. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history. -- Bill Bryson
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. -- Aleksandar Hemon
This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime. -- Lady Gaga
The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. -- James Monroe
I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life. -- John Muir
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in different worlds because were on different continents. -- Philip Glass
Our acquisition strategy is very clear: 3x3. Three continents - Asia, Africa and South America, and in three categories where we have strong positions - personal wash, household care and hair care. -- Adi Godrej
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't. -- Victor Blanchard Scheffer
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical. -- Charles Darwin
The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents. -- Trudi Canavan
My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision. -- Walt Whitman
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner. -- Robert Musil
I am beginning to give revelation over ley lines and power lines over nations and continents. I am releasing angels to war along with you and bring revelation over power sources and strong men. -- Chuck Pierce
I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty. -- Jack Johnson
When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level. -- Chris Hadfield
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. -- Jared Diamond

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