Alfred Shaker Village

Famous quotes containing the words shaker and/or village:

    “Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others likeminded, one re- establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.”
    —Paul Goodman (1911–1972)