Famous quotes containing the words independence, day and/or november:
“The Indians intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and go into his hole like the seventeen-year locust, in an ever-shabby coat, though finer than the farmers best, yet never dressed.... He especially is the creature of the occasion. He empties both his pockets and his character into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)