She did not have the power to make the earth move.
"I thought you liked to feel the earth move."
"What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?"
After a little while, he asks, "But did thee feel the earth move?"
In Russia, when people start talking about turning in their cars for something, you can feel the earth move.
And yet it cannot be said the earth moves, because what moves is the wind.
The man in the smoke-gray Dodge van didn't even feel the earth move.
I think there's this sense of transcendent power: to mobilize that force, to make the earth move.
These lovers do feel the earth move - but it's caused by seismic activity.