Highest Surface Wind

Famous quotes containing the words highest, surface and/or wind:

“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is—”Let there be truth between us two forevermore.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)

“Day after day, throughout the winter,
We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason
In a world of wind and frost....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)