Elevation
- Highest elevation point: Pico da Neblina 2,994 m (9,823 ft) 0°48′N 66°02′W / 0.8°N 66.033°W / 0.8; -66.033 (Pico da Neblina (highest))
- Lowest elevation point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
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Famous quotes containing the word elevation:
“Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation—the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
“Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)