Famous quotes containing the words leaf, valley and/or township:
“I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone elses.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet;”
—Thomas Moore (17791852)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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