Adventure Boxed Set

Famous quotes containing the words adventure, boxed and/or set:

    “A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
    —Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)

    “Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet.... All the pines shudder and heave a sigh when that man steps on the forest floor.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, and admit of fantastic values being attached to them. If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him, and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)