Famous quotes containing the words claim and/or based:
“It matters little comparatively whether the fields fill the farmers barn. The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creaturethis is natures essence, its immutable law, this is what its based on and what it adheres to.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)