Famous quotes containing the words wirt and/or township:
“I’m so sick of Nancy Drew I could vomit.”
—Mildred Augustus Wirt Benson (b. c. 1906)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)