Delicate Quote by Anthony Trollope

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

— Adrienne Rich

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's…

— William Cowper

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“On older trees still than these huge lobes of fungi grew like lungs. Here, as everywhere, the Unfulfilled Intention, which makes life what it…

— Thomas Hardy

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Need is a funny thing. Sometimes it’s just a hum in the background. Sometimes it grows like ivy, patient but relentless, sliding tiny tendrils…

— Sarah Fine

“our destinies are intertwined like the stems of ivy on an oak tree.”

— Chris Tinniswood

You don't know the plant until you've killed it. Then you've learned something.

— Janet Macunovich

I see you over there, just clinging to the wall. Because they told you like ivy you were bound to crawl. But you kept…

— John Hiatt

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or…

— Charles Bukowski

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

— William C. Bryant

“Did you know that a plant knows when it is being eaten? Well, as recent research reveals, it does, but it doesn’t just sit…

— Steven R. Gundry