Woodland Period/middle Woodland Period 1-500 Ce

Famous quotes containing the words woodland, period and/or middle:

    “I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that our life should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I don’t like to be idle; in fact, I often feel somewhat guilty unless there is some purpose to what I am doing. But spending a few hours—or a few days—in the woods, swamps or alongside a stream has never seemed to me a waste of time.... I derive special benefit from a period of solitude.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “Most safely shall you tread the middle path.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)