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When old writing describes the earth splitting

This asunder collection draws on classical and historical writing about landscapes reshaped and the earth's tremors. For more on classical themes, see the Ardor quotes page.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Feet
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Nov 07, 2020

We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!

Quotes by Pliny the Elder

Face
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Nov 07, 2020

Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.

Quotes by Pliny the Elder

Health
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Nov 07, 2020

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.

Quotes by Alice Morse Earle

It also touches on a period when medical practice had not fully separated from older, unscientific beliefs. Read more at the Calculating quotes page.

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