High Banked Clay

Famous quotes containing the words high, banked and/or clay:

    “A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to know that they exist, though he may have cut many tons of them, littered his stables with them, and fed them to his cattle for years. Yet, if he ever favorably attends to them, he may be overcome by their beauty.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The winter owl banked just in time to pass
    And save herself from breaking window glass.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)