North Druid Hills

Famous quotes containing the words north, druid and/or hills:

    “I felt that he, a prisoner in the midst of his enemies and under the sentence of death, if consulted as to his next step or resource, could answer more wisely than all his countrymen beside. He best understood his position; he contemplated it most calmly. Comparatively, all other men, North and South, were beside themselves.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In yonder Grave a Druid lies
    Where slowly winds the Stealing Wave!
    The Year’s best Sweets shall duteous rise
    To deck its Poet’s sylvan Grave!”
    —William Collins (1721–1759)

    “I am going to my own hearthstone,
    Bosom’d in yon green hills alone—
    A secret nook in a pleasant land,”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)