Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or gases:
“my pleasure
was in the strength of my back,
in my noble shoulders, the cool
smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to Nature; and the skin or skeleton you show me, is no more a heron, than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)