Proper Ideal

Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or ideal:

“They are very proper forest houses, the stems of the trees collected together and piled up around a man to keep out wind and rain,—made of living green logs, hanging with moss and lichen, and with the curls and fringes of the yellow birch bark, and dripping with resin, fresh and moist, and redolent of swampy odors, with that sort of vigor and perennialness even about them that toadstools suggest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)