Famous quotes containing the words soft and/or opening:
“Once this soft turf, this rivulet’s sands,
Were trampled by a hurrying crowd,”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)