Wilderness/critique

Famous quotes containing the words wilderness and/or critique:

    The very timber and boards and shingles of which our houses are made grew but yesterday in a wilderness where the Indian still hunts and the moose runs wild.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Wagner’s art is the most sensational self-portrayal and self- critique of German nature that it is possible to conceive.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)