The sheer size of a locomotive is overwhelming.
I will plant a dozen houses on this pasture next moon, and a village anon; . . . .*
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| "The sound is civilization" | ||
The sheer size of a locomotive is overwhelming. |
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| "I hear the whistle of the locomotive in the woods. Wherever that music comes it has its sequel. It is the voice of the civility of the Nineteenth Century saying, 'Here I am.' I is interrogative: it is prophetic: and this Cassandra is believed: 'Whew!Whew!Whew! How is real estate here in the swamp and wilderness? Ho for Boston! Whew! Whew! . . . I will plant a dozen houses on this pasture next moon, and a village anon; . . . .* |
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