„Who owns the earth? Did we want the earth that we should wander on it? Did we need the earth that we were never still upon it? Whoever needs the earth shall have the earth: he shall be still upon it, he shall rest within a little place, he shall dwell in one small room for ever.“

— Thomas Wolfe
„If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.“
— Chinua Achebe
„I with Alostrael alone - we shall do Magick unto our Lord the Devil such as the Earth hath never known.“
— Aleister Crowley
„Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.“
— Archimedes
„I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name CHAOS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes.And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.“
— Aleister Crowley