Acre

Acre

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. Its international symbol is ac.

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Famous quotes containing the word acre:

    And every acre good enough to eat,
    As fine as flour put through a baker’s sieve.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, anything.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)