Acre Feet

Famous quotes containing the words acre and/or feet:

“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, anything.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“As for the possible hereafter of the whales; a creature eighty feet long without stockings, and thirty feet round the waist before dinner, is not inconsiderately to be consigned to annihilation.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)