Famous quotes containing the words surface and/or waves:
“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And the waves sing because they are moving.
And the waves sing above a cemetery of waters.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)