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Quotes About Lowland

In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland,At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee,Walled round with rocks as an inland island,The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Puszcza, an old Polish word, means "forest primeval." Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, the half-million acres of the Bia?owie?a Puszcza contain Europe's last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness.
~ Alan Weisman
There was a ship came from the north country,And the name of the ship was the Golden Vanity.And they feared she might be taken by the Turkish enemy,That sails upon the Lowland, Lowland, Lowland,That sails upon the Lowland sea.
~ Anonymous: Shanties
The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That's the Lowland Scot - I'm a Highlander. We're particularly lovely and charming.
~ Hugh Grant
homes. Syracuse, chosen as the best route for canals, had been an undeveloped swampy lowland. Colonel William L. Stone, passing through in 1820 when the Syracuse population was 250 people, wrote, "It was so desolate it would make an owl weep to fly over it.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises'' Gunthor said. ''Half a man I may be'' Tyrion said. ''Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hide behind rocks and shiver with fear as the knights of the Vale ride by?
~ George R.R. Martin
My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.
~ Phil Jackson
It feels like Scotland. Have you ever been? Mmmm. Twice. Have you? No. You should. It's your roots. You'll be surprised how much they tug at you when you breathe the air in the Highlands or look out at a lowland loch.
~ Nora Roberts
Once, within this enclave, there were two ponds, oblong, side by side. Behind them was a lowland spanning a few acres.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Many highlanders spoke Gaelic rather than Lowland Scots, exacerbating cultural differences.
~ John Guy