Famous Quotes - Tags - Plants

  • A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! More
  • A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to... More
  • All dripping in tangles green,
    Cast up by a lonely sea, More
  • All plants move, but they don’t usually pull themselves out of the ground and chase you. More
  • And yet these Rarities might be allow’d,
    To Man, that sov’raign thing and proud;
    Had... More
  • As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern... More
  • Beautiful, wide-spread,
    fire upon leaf,
    what meadow yields
    so fragrant a leaf
    as... More
  • Blackberries
    Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes
    Ebon in the hedges,... More
  • Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver. And I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now what’s... More
  • Celery, raw,
    Develops the jaw, More
  • Each alone,
    each separately, I come
    separate parasite,
    white spear-head
    with... More
  • Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of... More
  • Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where... More
  • Feed me! More
  • first the cotyledon
    then thickly the differentiated
    true leaves of the seedlings ... More
  • Fruit on the sand
    marked with a rich grain. More
  • Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place
    I’ll set a bank of rue, sour... More
  • Humble as the ripest mulberry
    That will not hold the handling. More
  • I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies,
    Hanging their bluegreen bellies... More
  • I light matches and put them in my mouth,
    and my teeth melt but the greenery hisses on.
    I... More
  • I like the dust on the nettles, never lost
    Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. More
  • If August passes
    flowerless,
    and the frosts come,
    will I have learned to rejoice... More
  • In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful... More
  • It was a green world,
    Unchanging holly with the curled
    Points, cypress and... More
  • Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,
    Did after him the World seduce:
    And from the... More
  • Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile... More
  • Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and... More
  • Now here this, now here this. Reveille. I repeat, reveille. Attention all hands. Because another... More
  • O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
    In plants, herbs, stones, and their true... More
  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;
    A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper... More
  • Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upwards... More
  • Poetry and music I have banished,
    But the stupidity
    Of root, shoot, blossom or... More
  • Reed,
    slashed and torn
    but doubly rich ... More
  • She planted corn and left the rest
    to elements, convinced that God
    with giant faucets... More
  • shows its berries red
    In token of the drops of blood
    Which on Calvary were shed. More
  • Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apace. More
  • So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
    Gently entwist; the female ivy so
    Enrings the... More
  • Society is all but rude,
    To this delicious solitude.

    No white nor red was ever... More
  • Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our
    vines have tender grapes. More
  • The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation... More
  • The hemlocks are the only
    young thing left. You are gone. More
  • The holly and the ivy
    Are plants that are well known
    Of all the trees that grow in the... More
  • The plant is not a mere product of the soil, but a living process centred in itself, the essence... More
  • The woods were as fresh and full of vegetable life as a lichen in wet weather, and contained many... More
  • The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds. More
  • There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily... More
  • Think you, my lord, there is no sensation in being a tree? feeling the sap in one’s boughs, the... More
  • Though of erect nature, man is far above the plants. For man’s superior part, his head, is... More
  • To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,— More
  • Unloved, that beech will gather brown,
    This maple burn itself away;

    Unloved, the... More
  • We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible. More
  • What he loved so much in the plant morphological structure of the tree was that given a fixed... More
  • When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat,... More
  • Why, he was met even now
    As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud,
    Crowned with rank... More
  • You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the... More

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