North Celestial Pole

Famous quotes containing the words north, celestial and/or pole:

“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”
—Edmund H. North (1911–1990)

“It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies.... Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)