Solitary Island Nature

Famous quotes containing the words solitary, island and/or nature:

    “Theatergoing is a communal act, moviegoing a solitary one.”
    —Robert Brustein (b. 1927)

    “The island dreams under the dawn
    And great boughs drop tranquillity;
    The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
    A parrot sways upon a tree,
    Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)