Log

Famous quotes containing the word log:

    “There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.”
    —James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

    “The most interesting dwellings in this country, as the painter knows, are the most unpretending, humble log huts and cottages of the poor commonly; it is the life of the inhabitants whose shells they are, and not any peculiarity in their surfaces merely, which makes them picturesque.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)