Famous quotes containing the words point and/or mission:
“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)