Open Air Museum

Famous quotes containing the words open, air and/or museum:

    “I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside
    now take my word for jewel in the open light.”
    —Audre Lorde (b. 1934)

    “At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A rat eats, then leaves its droppings.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 85, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)