Sentence examples for of a small planet from inspiring English sources

It was the size of a small planet.

Kasarda and his amanuensis, Greg Lindsay, have produced a book called "Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next" that sets out a hectic vision for the soon-to-be nine billion inhabitants of a small planet.

Daniel's brother Simon claims partial credit for the Clangers, having chatted to his father about his fantasy of a small planet and a giant called Jeffrey who wore armour to ward off meteorites and drank soup from craters.

A disco ball the size of a small planet spun from the ceiling reflecting specks of light across Mr. Dillon's face as he stood a few feet from the bar.

Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) despises, tolerates, and eventually melts before Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), whose country pad is the size of a small planet — not that Lizzie cares a fig for such ephemera.

We are the denizens of a small planet "in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy", as Douglas Adams once put it.

"It's a very exciting moment," said Shay Salomon, a green builder in Tucson, Ariz., and the author of "Little House on a Small Planet" (Lyons Press, 2006), "because it feels like a chapter of American history might be ending, the chapter called 'Bigger is Better.' I'm not the Gallup poll, but I hear the same story over and over: We got rid of that big house, and now I have time to see my husband.

Books like "Tiny Houses" (Rizzoli, 2009), the new edition of "Little House on a Small Planet" (Lyons Press, 2009) and "Small Eco Houses: Living Green in Style" (Universe, 2010) celebrate the beauty of smallness; in magazines, the microhouse has become a standard typology.

Frances Moore Lappé Cambridge, Mass., June 27, 2009 The writer is a founder of the Small Planet Institute and author of "Diet for a Small Planet".

Frances Moore Lappe - @fmlappe Frances Moore Lappe is the author of Diet for a Small Planet and is the co-founder of the Small Planet Institute.

FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ Cambridge, Mass., May 29, 2013 The writer is the author of "Diet for a Small Planet" and other books.