Valley

Valley

In geology, a valley or dale is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.

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Famous quotes containing the word valley:

    “In a valley late bees with whining gold
    Thread summer to the loose ends of sleep....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “All the Valley quivered one extended motion, wind
    undulating on mossy hills”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    “I see before me now a traveling army halting,
    Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
    Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)