Structures Determined

Famous quotes containing the words structures and/or determined:

“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)