Alpine Zone

Famous quotes containing the words alpine and/or zone:

“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)