Famous quotes containing the word mould:
“The civilized nations—Greece, Rome, England—have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The sheer rapture
that I would take
to mould a clear
and frigid statue;”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)