Ancient Silk Road

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

“No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.”
—Sir William Rootes (1894–1964)

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

“Through the hollow globe, a ring
of frayed rusty scrapiron,
is it the sea that shines?
Is it a road at the world’s edge?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)