cone quotes

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in perspective.

- Paul Ce  zanne
  Letter to EŁ   mile Bernard,15  Apr.

The more contracted that power is, the more easily it is destroyed. A country governed bya despot is an inverted cone.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark,14  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone

- RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
  'Waking Early Sunday Morning'.