Fort Thompson Formation

Famous quotes containing the words fort, thompson and/or formation:

    “There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “They smote and fell, who set the bars
    Against the progress of the stars,
    And stayed the march of Motherland!”
    —Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)

    “It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)