Arcadia Township may refer to:
- Arcadia Township, Iowa
- Arcadia Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, the former name of Kalamazoo Township until 1836
- Arcadia Township, Lapeer County, Michigan
- Arcadia Township, Manistee County, Michigan
- Arcadia Township, Missouri
- Arcadia Township, Nebraska
- Arcadia Township, North Carolina
Famous quotes containing the words arcadia and/or township:
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)