Arcadia Township may refer to:
- Arcadia Township, Iowa
- Arcadia Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, the former name of Kalamazoo Township until 1836
- Arcadia Township, Lapeer County, Michigan
- Arcadia Township, Manistee County, Michigan
- Arcadia Township, Missouri
- Arcadia Township, Nebraska
- Arcadia Township, North Carolina
Famous quotes containing the words arcadia and/or township:
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)