Venerable Order

Famous quotes containing the words venerable and/or order:

“Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)