Wilderness/critique

Famous quotes containing the words wilderness and/or critique:

    “These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
    —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)