Protective Shield

Famous quotes containing the words protective and/or shield:

    “The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)