Famous quotes containing the words float and/or zone:
“It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)