Mound Builders

Famous quotes containing the words mound and/or builders:

“Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)