Native Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:

    “Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.... I derive more of my subsistence from the swamps which surround my native town than from the cultivated gardens in the village.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We imagined that the sun shining on their bare heads had stamped a liberal and public character on their most private thoughts.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
    And on a day we meet to walk the line
    And set the wall between us once again.
    We keep the wall between us as we go.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)