Prescribed Natural

Famous quotes containing the words prescribed and/or natural:

“... women can never do efficient and general service in hospitals until their dress is prescribed by laws inexorable as those of the Medes and Persians. Then, that dress should be entirely destitute of steel, starch, whale-bone, flounces, and ornaments of all descriptions; should rest on the shoulders, have a skirt from the waist to the ankle, and a waist which leaves room for breathing.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

““Having reached the term of his natural life”; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)