1.   For woman as maker and subject, earth has particularly strong associations.

2.   The earth has a finite number of resources which we must protect.

3.   But even if the earth had no ocean, there would still be some temperature lag since the atmosphere does not respond instantly to changes in solar energy.

4.   The earth has an ugly way of reminding man of its growing pains.

5.   The earth has magnetic anomalies that can frustrate even the most skillful scientific solutions.

6.   She said the earth had a brown halo around it.