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Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceQuotations · 5 months ago

Can you explain this saying "It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet." by Charles Kuralt?

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  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    That's not "a saying."  He was a professional traveler and that's his description of the way we tend to forget things that aren't obvious.

  • 3 months ago

    This world was an Oyster, it is nearly dead and Its best Pearl a dusty pockmarked obscenity. 

  • Anonymous
    4 months ago

    That's not "a saying."  He was a professional traveler and that's his description of the way we tend to forget things that aren't obvious.

  • 5 months ago

    No matter how technically advanced we are, nature is still in charge. A major event can still severely hurt humanity.

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    Source(s): I grew up during the moon landings and heart transplants--science rocks!!!. Smallpox was eliminated. But this climate change and COVID19, changed my attitude about man's technical abilitys.
  • 5 months ago

    It might mean as a people we get stuck in our ways and it takes a lot before we realize we’re stuck and need to be unstuck

  • 5 months ago

    It means never take anything for granted. Your life can change in a heartbeat.

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