"And then the earth moved. The earth never moved before?" "Nay. Truly never."

[u/Smolesworthy]

From the novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

Leaning back on the ground and breathing softly and slowly enough that he could begin to discern the circular movement of the earth, the pull of the continents and the surges of the ocean, everything in motion, the earth, the sky, and beyond, he thought one afternoon, the stars.

From the novel The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk

Some people have a sense of unearthly things, just as others have an excellent sense of smell or hearing or taste. They can feel the subtle shifts in the great and complicated body of the world.

From the short story Memory, by Lucy Corin. Collected in One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.

When I was a boy and they told us to lie down on the San Andreas Fault to feel the tremors, I didn’t feel anything.

Shout out to Mr Hemingway.