Famous quotes containing the words healing and/or abutment:
“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)
“Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow’s arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal. It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin. If it had lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and my life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)