Famous quotes containing the words north and/or line:
“Refinements origin:
the remote north countrys
rice-planting song.”
—Matsuo Basho (16441694)
“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)