Sole Surviving

Famous quotes containing the words sole and/or surviving:

“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
—André Gide (1869–1951)

“For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)