All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.

-Bryant,William Cullen
  'Thanatopsis', in the North  American Review, Sep.

Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, Thisgewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.

-Dryden,John
  Anthony.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2, sc.1.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining togetheras one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

-Muir,John
Travels in  Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

Sothat finding myself at present inorabout onehundred and twenty degrees off east longitude from England, it bred in me a desire to proceed on the same easterly course till I had ended where I began, and so to have once made one circle round the globe of the earth, which would have been a voyage of voyages.

-Mundy, Peter
c.1640  Objections were raised and Mundy was unable to fulfil this aim. Travels (published c.1650).

  He who drinks a tumbler of London Water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, Women and Children on the face of the globe.

-Smith, Rev Sydney
  Letter to Lady Grey,19 Nov.

The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  'The HandThat Signed the Paper Felled a City'.

In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

-Truman, Harry S
  On the10th anniversary of the United Nations, 24 Jun.