Zone/places

Famous quotes containing the words zone and/or places:

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“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)