Famous quotes containing the words diet, mountain and/or dew:
“I learned from my two years experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain ones necessary food, even in this latitude; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.... Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“One who only sits idle and eats can exhaust a mountain of wealth.”
—Chinese proverb.
“But look, the morn in russet mantle clad
Walks oer the dew of yon high eastward hill.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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