Natural Born Citizen

Famous quotes containing the words natural, born and/or citizen:

    Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)