Quotes About Heritage

Three Village Historical Society

Fairfield Museum and History Center

Old Sturbridge Village, a living museum that re-creates life in New England through the 1830s

he had become the patriarch of horseflesh.

You might think your own personal apple has fallen far from the tree, but that tree has roots you don't see until you trip over them.

I thought about Nietzsche. There we were: a German stallion and a Jewish mare. The fatherland would adore me.

The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years.

Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth century, more books were burned than ever before or since. How many Homers vanished? How many Hesiods? What great works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music vanished or never were created? Languages, prayers, dreams, habits, and hopes—all gone. And not just once, but over and over again.

More than nine out of ten Native Americans—and almost all South American Indians—have type O blood, for example, whereas Europeans are more evenly split between types O and A.

More than a hundred sets of casta paintings are known. Many are beautifully crafted. Some were painted by mixed people themselves. Looking

I do not believe, as we shall presently see, that all our dogs have descended from any one wild species; but, in the case of some other domestic races, there is presumptive, or even strong, evidence in favour of this view.

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

Some highly competent authorities are convinced that the setter is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. It is known that the English pointer has been

unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations

But that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species.

Après douze générations, la proportion du sang, pour employer une expression vulgaire, n'est que de 1 sur 2 048; et pourtant, comme nous le voyons, on croit généralement que cette proportion infiniment petite de sang étranger suffit à déterminer une tendance au retour [ de ces caractères perdus. ]

Grâce à cette lutte, les variations, quelque faibles qu'elles soient, et de quelque causes qu'elles proviennent, tendent à préserver les individus d'une espèce et se transmettent ordinairement à leur descendance, pourvu qu'elles soient utiles à ces individus dans leurs rapports infiniment complexes avec les autres êtres organisés et avec la nature extérieure.

species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral characters.

Habiendo tenido ejemplares vivos de casi todas las castas inglesas de aves de corral, habiéndoselas criado y cruzado, después de examinar sus esqueletos, nos parece casi cierto que en su totalidad descienden de la raza salvaje india Gallus bankiva.

revert to the wild aboriginal stock.

There was nothing about her story remarkable other than that it was her life.

Old Point Comfort was where the first Africans were set ashore from a Dutch ship in 1619.

where the Coffins had lived ever since Noah's flood (if, indeed, they had not merely returned thither after that temporary displacement)