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)

    “Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)