North Atlantic Drift

Famous quotes containing the words north, atlantic and/or drift:

    “The Moon’s the North Wind’s cooky,”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    “The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

    “But now they drift on the still water,
    Mysterious, beautiful;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)