Human Corpses

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or corpses:

“Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
How can you be alive you growths of spring?
How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
Are they not continually putting distemper’d corpses within you?
Is not every continent work’d over and over with sour dead?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)