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Quotation from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
“All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives—all that was over.”
The Time Machine, Chapter XIV, The Further Vision (Project Gutenberg #35)
Beside a dead sea more than thirty million years in the future, the Traveller hears the silence during an eclipse.
Citation: "All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives—all that was over." — H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter XIV, The Further Vision (Project Gutenberg #35). (id the-time-machine-q6)
Portrait: H.G. Wells by Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
