Year

Year

A year (from Old English gēar) is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on the Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic.

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Famous quotes containing the word year:

    “The chrysanthemums’ astringent fragrance comes
    Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
    Of machine within machine within machine.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “each year we see
    Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new;”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)