Pine Grove Furnace

Famous quotes containing the words pine, grove and/or furnace:

    “Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Bees don’t swarm in a mango grove for nothing.
    Where can you see a wisp of smoke
    without a fire?”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “What the hammer?What the chain?
    In what furnace was thy brain?
    What the anvil?What dread grasp
    Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)