Land State Provincial

Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:

    “For Nature ever faithful is
    To such as trust her faithfulness.
    When the forest shall mislead me,
    When the night and morning lie,
    When the sea and land refuse to feed me,
    ‘Twill be time enough to die.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)