Fences

Famous quotes containing the word fences:

“He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)