Thomas Browne Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

  Thomas Browne

  Garden, Earth, Hours

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns”, p.386

• Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

  Thomas Browne

  Brother, Shadow, Half

  S. Wilkin (ed.) 'Sir Thomas Browne's Works' (1835) vol. 4, p. 355 'On Dreams'

• To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

  Thomas Browne

  Needs, World, Earth

  Letter to a Friend, circa 1656.

• Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Gold, Ashes

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns”, p.475

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