Famous quotes containing the words professional and/or soil:
“In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. Americanon the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The same soil is good for men and for trees. A mans health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)