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Habitation Quotes by John Smith
- As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
- Heaven & earth never agreed better to frame a place for mans habitation; were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people.
More Habitation Quotes
- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka
- A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
- To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply,… — George Santayana
- As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving… — John Owen
- We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin
- Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you… — Eudora Welty
- What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Unknown Author
- My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of… — Barry Commoner
- All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as… — John Flavel
- It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll