Pliny the Elder Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  Natural History II

• The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind. ...Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure."

  Pliny the Elder

  Names, Perfect, Doubt

• It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Science, Earth, Remains

• Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Doe, Naked

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1957). “Natural History: An Account by a Roman of what Romans Knew and Did and Valued”

• It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mother, Men, Enemy

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