Age Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Student: Master, a large tree is threatening to encircle our temple building. Shall I cut it down? Master: You've misunderstood. A beautiful tree is…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

— Calvin Coolidge

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

— Ivan Turgenev

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.”

— James C. Snyder

“I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.”

— Norman Mailer

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure

— Mark Twain

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“Thither he bent his way, determined there to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,…

— John Milton