Quaternary Ice Age

Famous quotes containing the words ice and/or age:

    “Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven
    That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)