Spring/places

Famous quotes containing the words spring and/or places:

“Ae spring brought off her master hale,
But left behind her ain grey tail:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such “improvements” in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety; but as for the beauty of one of these “model farms,” I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)