Skylines quotes

Skylines

12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Hervey Allen
Hervey Allen Author

"Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation."

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