Verge Watches

Famous quotes containing the words verge and/or watches:

“There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)