Private Nature Reserve

Famous quotes containing the words private, nature and/or reserve:

“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“As I sat before the fire on my fir-twig seat, without walls above or around me, I remembered how far on every hand that wilderness stretched, before you came to cleared or cultivated fields, and wondered if any bear or moose was watching the light of my fire; for Nature looked sternly upon me on account of the murder of the moose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“One should never make one’s debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one’s old age.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)