Antediluvian Period

Famous quotes containing the words antediluvian and/or period:

“We confess that we never had much respect for that antediluvian race.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the “best men,” as the Algonquins called them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)