Park River Adventure

Famous quotes containing the words park, river and/or adventure:

    “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)

    “but we wish the river had another shore,
    some further range of delectable mountains,”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “A man I praise that once in Tara’s Halls
    Said to the woman on his knees, “Lie still,
    My hundredth year is at an end. I think
    That something is about to happen, I think
    That the adventure of old age begins....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)