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Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Thomas Carlyle
Men, Names, Earth
Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.233, CUP Archive
Friend, hast thou considered the rugged, all-nourishing earth, as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?