Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or distance:
“The measure of the little while
That I’ve been long away.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“No doubt, the short distance to which you can see in the woods, and the general twilight, would at length react on the inhabitants, and make them savages. The lakes also reveal the mountains, and give ample scope and range to our thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)