Famous quotes containing the words distance and/or scale:
“Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?”
—Georg Büchner (18131837)