Quotes About Metronomic

call this interval "interglacial" rather than "post-glacial" because for the past million years, Earth has oscillated between glacial cold and interglacial warmth on a 100,000-year timescale dictated by metronomic variations in Earth's orbit around the sun. There is no reason to believe that our current warmth is anything other than an interglacial interval destined to give way to renewed glacial advance in the future.

Their voices came in clearly from the golf course. The laughing and yelping made a raucous counterpoint to the metronomic tock-tock-tock of the bunny's never-ending hop. Once, in the light of the quarter moon, they appeared in silhouette on a domed, distant green, like figures dancing in someone's dream. And then quite suddenly they were gone, as if the dreamer had awakened. Nothing to see, nothing to hear. Someone called Hey! after them, but that was all.