Woods State Nature

Famous quotes containing the words woods, state and/or nature:

    “Among the earliest institutions to be invented, if I read the stars right, is a Protestant monastery, a place of elegant seclusion where melancholy gentlemen and ladies may go to spend the advanced session of life in drinking milk, walking the woods & reading the Bible and the poets.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace ...”
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

    “But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.”
    —Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)