Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or phenomena:
“An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)