Winter Retreat

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or retreat:

“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)