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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.

The earth has a life of its own.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.