Cities Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Springtime, she thought, before the heat comes and crushes the leaves into pulp and withers the petals off the flowers.”

— Cassandra Clare

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and…

— Henry David Thoreau

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening…

— Henry David Thoreau

I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on…

— Henry David Thoreau

Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are…

— Oliver DeMille

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make…

— Edith Wharton

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing…

— Nick Bostrom

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so,…

— Christopher Hitchens

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought…

— H. G. Wells

A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to…

— Bruce Cockburn