Midnight Oil/farm - 1972-1976

Famous quotes containing the words midnight, oil and/or farm:

    “Where have you gone? The tide is over you,
    The turn of midnight water’s over you,
    As Time is over you, and mystery,
    And memory, the flood that does not flow.”
    —Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)

    “Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil be said to have discovered the true use of the whale?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.”
    —Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)