Element Names

Famous quotes containing the words element and/or names:

“The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)