Indian Origin Settled

Famous quotes containing the words indian, origin and/or settled:

“According to my observation, a batteau, properly manned, shoots rapids as a matter of course, which a single Indian with a canoe carries round.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“No sane person should believe that something is ‘subjective’ merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.”
—Hilary Putnam (b. 1926)