Decay Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.

— Anne Sexton

The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the…

— Aldo Leopold

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless…

— Anonymous

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never…

— Edmund Burke

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.

— Steven Wright

All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you,…

— Isaiah

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all…

— Sam Keen

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren