Famous quotes containing the words spruce, pine and/or home:
“You did not expect to find such spruce trees in the wild woods, but they evidently attend to their toilets each morning even there. Through such a front yard did we enter that wilderness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“At home you always have to be a politician. When youre abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.”
—Harold MacMillan (18941986)
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