Famous quotes containing the words detect, electric and/or fields:
“In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,—not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The widest prairies have electric fences....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)