Wind Compass Rose

Famous quotes containing the words wind, compass and/or rose:

    All the familiar horrors we
    Associate with others
    Are coming fast along our way:
    The wind is warning in our tree
    And morning papers still betray
    The shrieking of the mothers.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and now and again they notice it.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    ...the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:6.