Closest Cities, Towns and Villages
| Lekermeer, Baarsdorpermeer | Wognum, Zwaagdijk, Zwaag | Oosterblokker, Westwoud | ||
| Bobeldijk, Spierdijk | Wijmers, Blokdijk | |||
| Hoorn | ||||
| Scharwoude, Grosthuizen | Edam, Volendam | Schellinkhout, Lelystad |
Read more about this topic: Hoorn Famous quotes containing the words closest, towns and/or villages:“The universe is not rough-hewn, but perfect in its details. Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. She has no interstices; every part is full of life.” “The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit, and versatility, to make a pin- polisher, and buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed like ant-hills, when cotton takes the place of linen, or railways of turnpikes, or when commons are inclosed by landlords.” “Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of the highest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.” |