“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier.” Erich Maria Remarque

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“To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier.”

Erich Maria Remarque (spoken by Paul Bäumer)

All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter IV, trans. A. W. Wheen

Going up to the line, Paul praises the earth that shelters a man pressed flat under shell-fire, his only friend, brother and mother.

Citation: "To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier." — Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter IV, trans. A. W. Wheen. (id all-quiet-on-the-western-front-q4)

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Quotation from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque