Famous quotes containing the words wendell and/or growth:
“And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is the natural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)