Abundance

Famous quotes containing the word abundance:

“I don’t believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.”
—Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] (1885–1962)

“What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Here commences what was called, twenty years ago, the best timber land in the State. This very spot was described as “covered with the greatest abundance of pine,” but now this appeared to me, comparatively, an uncommon tree there,—and yet you did not see where any more could have stood, amid the dense growth of cedar, fir, etc.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)