Subsistence Homesteads

Famous quotes containing the words subsistence and/or homesteads:

    All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper—just running down the edges of different countries and continents, “looking for something” ... having spent most of my life timorously seeking for subsistence along the coastlines of the world.
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    Remember all those renowned generations,
    They left their bodies to fatten the wolves,
    They left their homesteads to fatten the foxes,
    Fled to far countries, or sheltered themselves
    In cavern, crevice or hole,
    Defending Ireland’s soul.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)