Quotes of Vegetation - somelinesforyou

“ No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. ”

- William Cowper

“ I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! ”

- George Galloway

“ Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician. ”

- Peter Singer

“ I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. ”

- Edward Steichen

“ All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever. ”

- Ethel Lynn Beers

“ A stoic of the woods, — a man without a tear. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you. ”

- Joseph Parkinson

“ Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ He beat the bushes without taking the birds. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Bush used that line recently. I should sue him for plagiarism. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ How often from the steepOf echoing hill or thicket have we heardCelestial voices to the midnight air,Sole, or responsive each to other's note,Singing their great Creator? ”

- John Milton

“ Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. ”

- Thomas Overbury

“ Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Saint Valentine is past;Begin these wood-birds but to couple now? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Grove nods at grove. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator? ”

- John Milton

“ Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. ”

- Overlung

“ Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. ”

- John Heywood

“ Out of the city, far awayWith Spring today!Where copse tufted with primroseGive me repose,Wood-sorrel and wild violetSoothe my soul's fret. ”

- William Allingham

“ Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn. ”

- joss whedon

“ Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. ”

- John Milton

“ You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. ”

- Richard Roeper

“ I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce. ”

- Jack Kemp

“ We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight. ”

- Roy Rogers

“ When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to. ”

- Angela Davis

“ I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ”

- Robert Frost
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