Provincial Nature Reserve

Famous quotes containing the words provincial, nature and/or reserve:

    “The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain,
    And turn to all of him which may remain,
    Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,
    And broke the die—in moulding Sheridan!”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “One should never make one’s debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one’s old age.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)