Reading Park

Famous quotes containing the words reading and/or park:

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his “comb” and “spare shirt,” “leathern breeches” and “gauze cap to keep off gnats,” with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)