Ancient Silk Road

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:

“In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.

“[T]he temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)