Temperate Zone

Famous quotes containing the words temperate and/or zone:

“No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)