Famous quotes containing the word acres:
“The same soil is good for men and for trees. A mans health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Those holy fields,
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed
For our advantage on the bitter cross.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground:”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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