Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• "What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Nature, Travel, Earth

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

• The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Science

• My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Two, Feet

• So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Airports, Light

• The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Jobs, Night

• Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Earth, May, Precious Things

• What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Flower, Snakes, Earth

• What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Love Is

• Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Loneliness, Mind, Earth

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