I used to believe that when I lay on the grass on my back on a summers'day and watched the white clouds roll across the sky-that I was actually experiencing the earth spinning.
I really thought I could feel the earth moving beneath me. It was wonderful and greatly humbling at the same time.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- When I looked up in the sky and could see the clouds moving I used to think that it was the earth spinning.— JOhn
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- When I saw that the clouds were moving in the sky, I thought it was because of the rotation of the earth.Anon
- I used to believe that when I saw the clouds moving in the sky, that it was actually the earth moving. — Megan Gilbert
- I use to believe that the earth rotates on actually axes....i just pictured it spinning on red handle axesAnon
- I used to watch the clouds blowing across the sky and think I was seeing evidence of the earth's rotation.— Dave T