“Thou animated torrid-zone.”
To the humble Bee
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology
“It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Charles Lyell book Principles of Geology
Chpt.3, p. 37
Principles of Geology (1832), Vol. 1
Context: Respecting the extinction of species, Hooke was aware that the fossil ammonites, nautili, and many other shells and fossil skeletons found in England, were of different species from any then known; but he doubted whether the species had become extinct, observing that the knowledge of naturalists of all the marine species, especially those inhabiting the deep sea, was very deficient. In some parts of his writings, however, he leans to the opinion that species had been lost; and in speculating on this subject, he even suggests that there might be some connection between the disappearance of certain kinds of animals and plants, and the changes wrought by earthquakes in former ages. Some species, he observes with great sagacity, are peculiar to certain places, and not to be found elsewhere. If, then, such a place had been swallowed up, it is not improbable but that those animate beings may have been destroyed with it; and this may be true both of aerial and aquatic animals: for those animated bodies, whether vegetables or animals, which were naturally nourished or refreshed by the air, would be destroyed by the water, &c.; Turtles, he adds, and such large ammonites as are found in Portland, seem to have been the productions of the seas of hotter countries, and it is necessary to suppose that England once lay under the sea within the torrid zone! To explain this and similar phenomena, he indulges in a variety of speculations concerning changes in the position of the axis of the earth's rotation, a shifting of the earth's center of gravity, 'analogous to the revolutions of the magnetic pole,' &c.; None of these conjectures, however, are proposed dogmatically, but rather in the hope of promoting fresh inquiries and experiments.
John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
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“Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:
A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!"”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
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