Racine Township

Famous quotes containing the words racine and/or township:

“In a month, in a year, how will we bear that so many seas separate me from you?”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)