Famous quotes containing the words mount, pleasant and/or road:
“On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Perhaps a man like you cant realize what it is to have a conscience and no memory at all. Do you imagine its pleasant to be ashamed of something you cant even remember?”
—Orson Welles (19151985)
“Through the hollow globe, a ring
of frayed rusty scrapiron,
is it the sea that shines?
Is it a road at the worlds edge?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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