Famous quotes containing the words odor, plume and/or theory:
“Moisture and color and odor thicken here.
The hours of daylight gather atmosphere.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“In some of those dense fir and spruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a standing night, and every fir and spruce which you fell is a plume plucked from night’s raven wing.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)