High Banked Clay

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

    How high they build hospitals!
    Lighted cliffs, against dawns
    Of days people will die on.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    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)