Famous quotes containing the words detect, electric and/or fields:
“A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“I thought it would last my time
The sense that, beyond the town,
There would always be fields and farms....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)