Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or continent:
“Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Our moat around us is no more a moat,
Our continent no more a moated castle.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)