Building Houses

Famous quotes containing the words building and/or houses:

    “Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)