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:

    “We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Last year is dead, they seem to say,
    Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)