Famous quotes containing the words gass and/or appeared:
“Before and After. Yes, with a little work, they can be saved. It is the present, the immediate moment—the During—that is doomed.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)
“Here commences what was called, twenty years ago, the best timber land in the State. This very spot was described as “covered with the greatest abundance of pine,” but now this appeared to me, comparatively, an uncommon tree there,—and yet you did not see where any more could have stood, amid the dense growth of cedar, fir, etc.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)