Poul Anderson - Earth Quotes

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The end of the world—was the sky going to open up, would the angels pour down the vials of wrath on a shaking land, and would God appear to judge the sons of men? He listened for the noise of great galloping hoofs, but there was only the wind in the trees.
That was the worst of it. The sky didn't care. The Earth went on turning through an endlessness of dark and silence, and what happened in the thin scum seething over its crust didn't matter.

Poul Anderson

On our Earth, we've perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.

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She rarely saw priest—and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God—and was not the earth His work, and a church only man's?—but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.

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The air was cold and smelled of earth. Birds twittered. Beyond one or two hundred years back, Havig once said to me, the daytime sky is always full of wings.

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Don't get me wrong. These people are mine. I like and in many ways admire them. They're the salt of the earth. It's simply that I want other condiments too.

Poul Anderson