Iron Ridge

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or ridge:

    Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.
    Chinese proverb.

    All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)