Closed Border

Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or border:

“We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)