Natural Fires

Famous quotes containing the words natural and/or fires:

    “All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of the words by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When the villagers were lighting their fires beyond the horizon, I too gave notice to the various wild inhabitants of Walden vale, by a smoky streamer from my chimney, that I was awake.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)