Spreading Centres

Famous quotes containing the words spreading and/or centres:

“As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I perceive that in these woods the earliest settlements are, for various reasons, clustering about the lakes, but partly, I think, for the sake of the neighborhood as the oldest clearings. They are forest schools already established,—great centres of light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)