Aberdeenshire (historic) - Towns and Villages

Famous quotes containing the words towns and, towns and/or villages:

“The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)