Famous quotes containing the words washington and/or wild:
“A Republic! Look in the history of the Earth ... To be the first mannot the Dictator, not the Sylla, but the Washington or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truthis next to the Divinity!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“The poets, commonly, is not a loggers path, but a woodmans. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)