Large Specimens

Famous quotes containing the words large and/or specimens:

“I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review, in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)