“ Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? ”
- Emily Bronte- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Any fool can destroy trees. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools. ”
- John Muir- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. ”
- Sherwood Anderson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. ”
- Wendell Berry- Copy
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“ Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. ”
- Gerry Adams- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded, Acacias having drunk the lees Of the night-dew, fain headed, And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem The fittest foliage for a dream. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand. ”
- Richard De Bury- Copy
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“ If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it. ”
- St. Teresa of Avila- Copy
- 1.7K
“ A lot of plants were designed and built during the 1970s,... There's a 20 - to 25-year design period for those plants. That gets us to 2005, which is why plants such as Allenstown are about where they are. ”
- Stephen Roberts- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Eradication of this unquenchable shrub will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species. ”
- Wayne Allard- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ”
- Nelson Henderson- Copy
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“ A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture. ”
- Mick Lloyd Kerman- Copy
- 1.9K
“ A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
- 1.6K
“ You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. ”
- Billie Holiday- Copy
- 605
“ You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
- 3.6K
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