Lime Ridge is the name of the following locations in the United States:
- Lime Ridge, Pennsylvania
- Lime Ridge, Wisconsin
It is also the name of a geologic feature in the San Francisco Bay Area. There, Lime Ridge is a prominent foothill ridge of Mount Diablo.
It is also the name of an anticline in southeastern Utah, which is part of the Monument Upwarp. It is bordered on the east by Comb Ridge, and is bisected by the San Juan River.
Famous quotes containing the words lime and/or ridge:
“Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly, or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime twigs, the more he struggles, the more belimed.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)