National Camp Meeting

Famous quotes containing the words national, camp and/or meeting:

“There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; anything that is national is not scientific.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)