Famous quotes containing the words ohio, house and/or district:
“This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a better land, without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“This house was but a slight departure from the hollow tree, which the bear still inhabits,being a hollow made with trees piled up, with a coating of bark like its original.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)