Inland Ice Sheet

Famous quotes containing the words inland, ice and/or sheet:

    So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The awaited scream rises,
    the shattering
    of glass and the cracking
    of bone
    a polar tumult as when
    black ice booms....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    You take the lake. I look and look at it.
    I see it’s a fair, pretty sheet of water.
    I stand and make myself repeat out loud
    The advantages it has....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)