Inhabitant

Famous quotes containing the word inhabitant:

    The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    I am pleased to think of Channing as an inhabitant of the gray town. Seven cities contended for Homer dead. Tell him to remain at least long enough to establish Concord’s right and interest in him.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)