Quotes of Earthworm - somelinesforyou

“ How earthy old people become — moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linnus helped it on to an undeserved permanence when he devised the name Homo sapiens for the highest species of the order primates… ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler
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