Famous quotes containing the words bulk, rock and/or volume:
“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Under that rock that holds
the first swift kiss
of the spring-suns white, incandescent breath,
Id seek
you flowers.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”
—José Bergamín (18951983)
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