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)

    ‘Line in nature is not found;
    Unit and universe are round;
    In vain produced, all rays return;
    Evil will bless, and ice will burn.’
    As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,
    A shudder ran around the sky;
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A speck that would have been beneath my sight
    On any but a paper sheet so white
    Set off across what I had written there.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)