Island State Park

Famous quotes containing the words island, state and/or park:

    “In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Mother,
    each time I talk to God
    you interfere.
    You of the bla-bla set,
    carrying on about the state of letters.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his “comb” and “spare shirt,” “leathern breeches” and “gauze cap to keep off gnats,” with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)