Degraded World

Famous quotes containing the words degraded and/or world:

    By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    We have seen her
    the world over,
    Our Lady of the Goldfinch,
    Our Lady of the Candelabra,
    Our Lady of the Pomegranate,
    Our Lady of the Chair.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)