White Pines

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or pines:

“Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas; How comes it to be furnished...? To this I answer, in one word, From Experience: In that, all our Knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives it self.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)