Local Contrast

Famous quotes containing the words local and/or contrast:

“The local snivels through the fields:
I sit between felt-hatted mums....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all of the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)