Life Peers

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or peers:

    Who shall describe the inexpressable tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, because his peers did not exist.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)