It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.
Quotes about equator (10 Quotes)
Two or three of the men, besides one of the little girls, are natives of Congo, which is on the coast just south of the equator.
This architecture allows us global lunar access, ... Many of the most interesting places on the Moon are situated well off the equator.
No one minds what Jeffrey says . . it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator.
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it. . . . Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole ... when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth a melancholy bug.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.