System Surroundings

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or surroundings:

    “We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!”
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    “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)