System Surroundings

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or surroundings:

    “I need not say what match I would touch, what system endeavor to blow up; but as I love my life, I would side with the light, and let the dark earth roll from under me, calling my mother and my brother to follow.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)