Famous quotes containing the words village and/or land:
“But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The land was our before we were the land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)