Famous quotes containing the words village and/or green:
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)