Ancestral Environment

Famous quotes containing the words ancestral and/or environment:

    “The ancestral deed is thought and done,
    And in a million Edens fall
    A million Adams drowned in darkness,
    For small is great and great is small,
    And a blind seed all.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “... several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity ...”
    —Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)