Quotes of Woodland - somelinesforyou

“ Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ”

- Desmond Morris

“ Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms… ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke? ”

- Stephen Wright

“ If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke? ”

- Steven Wright

“ He can't see the forest for the trees. ”

- Unknown

“ I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States. ”

- Simeon Strunsky

“ My poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. ”

- Ely Culbertson

“ London's like a forest... we shall be lost in it. ”

- Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“ The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ”

- John Milton

“ The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ”

- Desmond Morris

“ Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Life is a zoo in a jungle. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. ”

- A. Whitney Brown

“ A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. ”

- Hal Borland

“ There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ”

- Washington Irving

“ May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. ”

- Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro
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